克莉絲提亞．絲貝爾斯．布朗（Christia Spears Brown）

美國肯塔基大學心理學教授。布朗教授主要研究孩童如何發展出性別與種族刻板印象，並探討如何干擾刻板印象之形成。她同時研究孩童與青少年如何理解個人與結構上的性別與種族歧視。她的研究圍繞教育，特別關注教師與同儕的角色、同儕影響以及學業表現。她的研究包含3大範疇：孩童與青少年的性別與種族歧視經驗、特定社會群體的刻板印象形成，以及孩童對社會不公平與政治的理解。Christia Spears Brown, Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky. My research focuses on how children develop gender and ethnic stereotypes and how that process can be disrupted, and how children and adolescents understand and perceive individual-level and structural (i.e., policy-based) forms of gender and ethnic discrimination. My research is centered around the school context, with a focus on the role of teachers and peers, peer norms, and academic outcomes. Specifically, my research focuses on 3 themes. First, I examine children’s and adolescents’ perceptions of gender and racial/ethnic discrimination. Second, I examine the development of social group stereotypes. Finally, we examine how children understand social inequality and politics.