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Nilanjana Dasgupta is a social psychologist whose work focuses on the effects of social contexts on implicit stereotypes - particularly on factors which insulate women in STEM fields from harmful stereotypes about their ability in those areas. Dasgupta is a Professor of Psychology and the Director of Faculty Equity and Inclusion in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst[1]

Education and Career

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Prior to joining the Psychology faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 2003[2], Dasgupta (b. 1969) received an A.B. from Smith College in 1992 in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience[2]. In 1998, she received a PhD in Psychology from Yale University[2]. Dasgupta then became a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle and, afterward, an Assistant Professor at the New School for Social Research from 1999-2002[2].

Dasgupta has held several leadership positions in national and international professional societies. She is serving on the National Science Foundation’s Advisory Committee for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (2015-17)[3]. She is an elected member of the executive committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and was elected to be President of the society in 2017[4]. Dr. Dasgupta serves on the Training Committee of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology[5], and on the steering committee of the International Social Cognition Network [6]. Dasgupta was an elected member of the council of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (2012-14)[7].

Research

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Dasgupta proposed the Stereotype Inoculation Model [8] which explains how, for women in STEM fields, experts [9] and peers [10][11][12] from one's own group in a working or learning environment can help individuals become more successful despite the pervasiveness of stereotypes casting doubt about their ability[13][14].

Dasgupta has also conducted research on situational influences on unconscious stereotyping and prejudice. One project, a collaboration with David Desteno, indicates that anger, but not sadness tends to increase bias against people in different social groups than their own [15][16][17] and that feeling a specific emotion can make people more biased against groups whose stereotypes are associated with that emotion [18]. Dasgupta and her colleagues have also found that being exposed to counterstereotypic [19] or well-liked [20] members of groups like African-Americans or women can reduce unconscious bias against those groups on the Implicit Association Task.

Awards and Honors

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Dasgupta’s work has been funded by a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation [21], and several other grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. In 2011, she and her collaborators received a Smashing Bias Research Prize awarded by the Mitchell Kapor Foundation and Level Playing Field Institute[22] She also received the Morton Deutsch Award from the International Society for Justice Research[23].

  1. ^ "Dasgupta Leading Faculty Equity and Inclusion Efforts in CNS". UMass Amherst News and Media Relations. University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Dasgupta, Nilanjana. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Nilanjana Dasgupta's Home Page. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  3. ^ "SBE Advisory Committee Members". National Science Foundation. National Science Foundation Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. ^ "SESP Officers and Committees". SESP. Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. ^ "SPSP Training Committee". Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  6. ^ "ISCON Steering Committee". International Social Cognition Network. International Social Cognition Network.
  7. ^ "Nilanjana Dasgupta". Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  8. ^ Dasgupta, Nilanjana (2011). "Ingroup Experts and Peers as Social Vaccines Who Inoculate the Self-Concept: The Stereotype Inoculation Model". Psychological Inquiry. 22 (4): 231–246. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2011.607313.
  9. ^ Stout, Jane G.; Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Hunsinger, Matthew; McManus, Melissa A. (2011). "STEMing the tide: using ingroup experts to inoculate women's self-concept in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 100 (2): 255–270. doi:10.1037/a0021385. PMID 21142376.
  10. ^ Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Sciricle, Melissa McManus; Hunsinger, Matthew (2015). "Female peers in small work groups enhance women's motivation, verbal participation, and career aspirations in engineering". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (16): 4988–4993. doi:10.1073/pnas.1422822112.
  11. ^ Santhanam, Laura (April 6, 2015). "Want more women in science and math? Pay attention to group projects, study suggests". PBS Newshour Rundown. PBS. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  12. ^ Johnson, Carolyn Y. (7 April 2015). "UMass research adds wrinkle to finding gender gap solution". Boston Globe. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  13. ^ Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Stout, Jane G. (1 October 2014). "Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: STEMing the Tide and Broadening Participation in STEM Careers". Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1 (1): 21–29. doi:10.1177/2372732214549471.
  14. ^ Vedantam, Shanktar (March 2011). "Psych-Out Sexism". Slate. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  15. ^ Desteno, David; Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Bartlett, Monica Y.; Cajdric, Aida (2004). "Prejudice From Thin Air. The Effect of Emotion on Automatic Intergroup Attitudes". Psychological Science. 15 (5): 319–324.
  16. ^ Dye, Lee. "Study Shows Anger Can Create Prejudice". ABC News. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  17. ^ Wartik, Nancy (April 20, 2004). "Hard-Wired for Prejudice? Experts Examine Human Response to Outsiders". New York Times. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  18. ^ Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Desteno, David; Williams, Lisa A; Hunsinger, Matthew (2009). "Fanning the flames of prejudice: The influence of specific incidental emotions on implicit prejudice". Emotion. 9 (4): 585–591. doi:10.1037/a0015961.
  19. ^ Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Asgari, Shaki (2004). "Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on the malleability of automatic gender stereotyping". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 40: 642–658.
  20. ^ Dasgupta, Nilanjana; Greenwald, Anthony G. (November 2001). "On the malleability of automatic attitudes: combating automatic prejudice with images of admired and disliked individuals". Journal of personality and social psychology. 81 (5): 800–14. PMID 11708558.
  21. ^ "NSF Award Abstracts". National Science Foundation Award Abstracts. National Science Foundation. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  22. ^ "Smashing Bias Research Prize". Level Playing Field Institute. Level Playing Field Institute. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  23. ^ "Morton Deutsch Award". International Society for Social Justice Research Homepage. International Society for Social Justice Research. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
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