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I am a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of
Waterloo. I recently received my PhD in Social Psychology from
Stanford, working primarily with Claude Steele and Carol Dweck. My
research is primarily focused on how people manage and defend their
self-image in the face of threats, and how this affects their beliefs
and behavior. I also explore how social contexts and psychological
processes can either exacerbate threats to self-image or attenuate
them. I have found that defensively managing self-image threats can
often lead to negative consequences, including academic
disidentification, missed learning opportunities, the avoidance of
important medical tests, and persistence in failing investments. I
believe that by identifying contexts and processes that attenuate
threat, individuals and organizations can employ strategies to prevent
these maladaptive outcomes.
Selected Publications
Nussbaum,
A. D.,
& Steele,
C. M. (2007). Persistence in the face of
adversity. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 43, 127-134.
Young, S. D., Nussbaum,
A. D., & Monin, B. (2007). Potential moral stigma
and reactions to sexually transmitted diseases: Evidence
for a disjunction fallacy. Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33,
789-799.
Nussbaum,
A. D.,
& Dweck, C. S.
(2008). Defensiveness vs. remediation: Self-theories and modes of
self-esteem
maintenance. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 34,
127-134.
Nussbaum,
A. D.,
& Steele,
C. M. (2008). Confronting Stereotype threat: The motivation to disprove
and avoid confirming stereotypes. Manuscript
under review at the Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology.
Sherman,
D. K., Cohen, G. L., Nelson, L. D., Nussbaum,
A. D.,
Bunyan, D. P., & Garcia, J. P. (2009). Affirmed yet unaware:
Exploring the
role of awareness in the process of self-affirmation. Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 745-764.
Please feel free to email me
for a copy of any of these articles at davenussbaum@gmail.com