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Diane M. Quinn

Professor Quinn's research focuses on the topics of gender and achievement, stigma and self, and ideology.

Primary Interests:

  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Gender Psychology
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Self and Identity
  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Gender Psychology
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Self and Identity

Research Group or Laboratory:

Journal Articles:

  • Blascovich, J., Spencer, S. J., Quinn, D. M., & Steele, C. M. (2001). African-Americans and high blood pressure: The role of stereotype threat. Psychological Science, 12(3), 225-229.
  • Quinn, D. M., & Chaudoir, S. R. (2009). Living with a concealable stigmatized identity: The impact of anticipated stigma, centrality, salience, and cultural stigma on psychological distress and health. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 652-666.
  • Quinn, D. M., & Crocker, J. (1999). When ideology hurts: Effects of belief in the Protestant ethic and feeling overweight on the psychological well-being of women. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77 (2), 402-414.
  • Quinn, D. M., Kahng, S. K., & Crocker, J. (2004). Discreditable: Stigma effects of revealing a mental illness history on test performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30(7), 803-815.
  • Quinn, D. M., Kallen, R. W., & Cathey, C. (2006). Body on my mind: The lingering effect of state self-objectification. Sex Roles, 55, 869-874.
  • Quinn, D. M., Kallen, R. W., Twenge, J. M., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2006). The disruptive effect of self-objectification on performance. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30, 50-64.
  • Quinn, D. M., & Spencer, S. J. (2001). The interference of stereotype threat on women’s generation of mathematical problem solving strategies. Journal of Social Issues, 57(1), 55-71.
  • Saguy, T., Quinn, D. M., Dovidio, J. F., Pratto, F. (2010). Interacting like a body: Objectification can lead women to narrow their presence in social interactions. Psychological Science , 21, 178-182.
  • Spencer, S. J., Steele, C. M., & Quinn, D. M. (1999). Stereotype threat and women’s math performance. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35(1), 4-28.

Other Publications:

  • Quinn, D. M. (2006). Concealable versus conspicuous stigmatized identities. In S. Levin and C. van Laar (Eds.), Stigma and Group Inequality: Social Psychological Approaches (pp. 83-103). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Courses Taught:

  • Introduction to Social Psychology
  • Research Methods
  • Self
  • Stigma
  • Introduction to Social Psychology
  • Research Methods
  • Self
  • Stigma

Diane M. Quinn
Department of Psychology, U-1020
University of Connecticut
406 Babbidge Road
Storrs, CT 06269-1020
United States

Phone: (860) 486-4936
Fax: (860) 486-2760

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