Stephanie A. Goodwin, Ph.D.

Dr. Stephanie A. Goodwin is the Program Director for the LEADER Consortium at Wright State University (WSU). As Program Director, she works with PIs, LEADER Council, committee chairs, and others to provide executive administrative support to Consortium initiatives and activities. Her role includes contributing to planning and implementing initiatives, organizing meetings and workshops, preparing reports, and maintaining communications among participants across the consortium’s institutions.

Dr. Goodwin is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at WSU where she is responsible for a broad program of social psychological research on social biases (stereotyping, prejudice, discrimination), including projects on implicit biases, impression formation, and social power. Her current research—a collaborative effort funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation—examines hurdles that inhibit people from speaking up when everyday incidents of prejudice occur. Prior to coming to WSU, Dr. Goodwin was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University where she taught courses related to her interests in diversity and equality in Psychology and Women’s Studies. In addition to maintaining an active research program that has been continuously funded for over 10 years, she has actively supported the professional development of women and members of other underrepresented groups in academia via mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, department service activities, and service to professional organizations that support diversity in academia.  

Stephanie Goodwin received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin before completing her M.S. and Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She completed post-doctoral training in implicit social cognition at Yale University. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and continues to serve as an ad hoc reviewer for these and other journals, including Psychological Science, and Sex Roles. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the Association of Psychological Science, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (Div. 8, APA). In recognition of her contributions to social psychology as an empirical science, she was elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in 2008.