Claude Steele
| Claude Mason Steele | |
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| Born |
January 1, 1946 Phoenix, Illinois |
| Fields | Psychology (Social) |
| Institutions |
University of Utah University of Washington University of Michigan Stanford University Columbia University University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
Hiram College (BA) Ohio State University (PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Ostrom |
| Known for | Stereotype threat, self-affirmation |
| Influences | Kenneth Clark, Ralph Cebulla, Thomas Ostrom |
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Website https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~claudesteele |
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Claude Mason Steele (born January 1, 1946) is an African-American social psychologist. He was the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley, where he continues to serve as a professor of psychology.
He is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus at Stanford. He served as the 21st provost of Columbia University for two years. Before that, he had been a professor of psychology at various institutions for almost 40 years.
He is best known for his work on stereotype threat and its application to minority student academic performance. His earlier work dealt with research on the self (like self-image and self-affirmation) as well as the role of self-regulation in addictive behaviors.
In 2010, he released his book, Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, summarizing years of research on stereotype threat and the underperformance of minority students in higher education.
Steele was born on January 1, 1946, to parents Ruth (social worker) and Shelby (truck driver) near Chicago in Phoenix, Illinois, during the Civil Rights Movement. Claude recalls his black family (including his twin brother, Shelby Steele, and two other siblings) as being deeply interested in social issues and the civil rights movement, as they were very much on American minds at the time. Steele remembers his father taking him and his brother to marches and rallies whenever possible. His father pushed him to achieve security in the context of securing employment, but Claude construed achievement as success in education. He enrolled at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, where he earned a B.A. in psychology in 1967.
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