Jennifer Crocker Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
January, 2014
Jennifer Crocker, Ph.D.
Ohio Eminent Scholar in Social Psychology
Professor of Psychology
The Ohio State University
Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University
1835 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
614-292-0985
Education
1979Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University, Major: Social Psychology
1975B. A., Michigan State University, Major: Psychology
1970-1971Reed College, Major: Mathematics
Previous Employment
1995-2010University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
September, 1995-2010: Professor, Department of Psychology
July, 1996- September, 1998: Chair of Social Psychology Area
September, 1995-August, 2004: Faculty Associate, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
September, 2004-2010: Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
July, 2006- June, 2010: Faculty Member, University of Michigan Depression Center
September 1, 2006-June 30, 2010: Claude M. Steele Collegiate Professor of Psychology
1985-1995State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Psychology
August, 1989 - August, 1995: Professor
August, 1985 - August, 1989: Associate Professor
July, 1986 - June, 1988 and August, 1989 - July, 1992: Associate Chair
1979-1985Northwestern University
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Winter, 1985University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Honors and Awards
1975-1977Harvard University Fellow
1982Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Summer Institute on Stigma and Interpersonal Relations,
1988Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, awarded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of APA) for the best paper on intergroup relations.
1992SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
1988Fellow, American Psychological Association
1990Fellow, American Psychological Society
1988Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
1990Fellow, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
1998LS & A Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan, 1998
2000-2001President, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (and Division 9 of APA)
2000-2005Independent Scientist Award, National Institute of Mental Health
2006Institute for Social Research Excellence Award
2006-2009President, International Society for Self and Identity
2006-presentClaude M. Steele Collegiate Professor of Psychology
2008Distinguished Service Award, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
2008Distinguished Lifetime Career Award, International Society for Self and Identity
2009Fellow, Society for Experimental Social Psychology
2010President, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (and Division 8 of APA)
Professional Association Memberships and Activities (selected)
Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)
1984-presentMember
1988-1991Member, Executive Committee
1989Member, Dissertation Award Committee
1989Secretary-Treasurer
1989-1990Chair of Executive Committee
1993Chair of Program Committee
2013Member, Program Committee
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
1977-1979Student Member
1979-2002Member
2002-presentLifetime Member
1996-1999Elected to Council
1998-1999Chair, Fellows Committee
1998Member, task force for formation of an electronic journal
1998-1999Member, search committee for editor of Journal of Social Issues
1998-1999 Member, nominating committee
1999Member, Kurt Lewin Memorial Award Committee
1999-2002President-elect, President, Past-President
2009Chair, Distinguished Service Award Committee
Professional Association Memberships and Activities (continued)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
1998-1999Member, Fellows Committee
2004Member, Theoretical Innovation Prize Committee
2005Chair, Theoretical Innovation Prize Committee
2007-2008 Chair, Campbell Award Committee
2007-2009Secretary/Treasurer
2008Member, Open Access Task Force
2008-presentChair, Finances Task Force
2009Chair, Executive Officer Search Task Force
2009-2011President-Elect, President, Past-President
2011Chair, Awards Committee
2012Chair, Task Force on Responsible Conduct in Research
2012Chair, Task Force on Reorganization of Central Office
2012-2015Representative to the Consortium for Social and Personality Psychology
2013Chair, Working Group on Central Office
2013Member, Executive Director Search Committee
International Society for Self and Identity
2002 & 2003Co-organizer, SESP Preconference on the Self
2003-2006Member, Executive Committee
2004Chair, search committee for editor of Self and Identity
2006-2009President
2009Chair, Lifetime Career Award Selection Committee
2010Chair, Lifetime Career Award Selection Committee
2013Member, Lifetime Career Award Selection Committee
American Psychological Association
1989Judge for APA Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution in Social Psychology
2000-2001President, Division 9
2009-2010President, Division 8
2009-2015Member, Publications and Communications Board (P&C Board)
2009-2010Chair, Editor Search Committee for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition
2010-2012Chair-elect, Chair, P&C Board
2010-2011Chair, Editor Search Committee for School Psychology Quarterly
2011-2012Chair, Editor Search Committee for Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
2011Chair, P&C Board Task Force on Data Sharing
2013Member, P&C Board Retraction Guidelines Task Force
2013Co-chair, P&C Board Task Force on Replications and Data Sharing
2013-2014Chair, Editor Search Committee for Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences
2013Co-chair, Editor Search Committee for Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Consortium for Social and Personality Psychology
2012-2015Treasurer
Grant Review Panels
1988-1989National Science Foundation, Social and Developmental Psychology,
1992Member, Committee of Visitors for oversight of the National Science Foundation
Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
1995-2001Russell Sage Foundation Advisory Committee, group on Cultural Contact
1997Member, Special emphasis panel in Social and Group Processes, NIMH
1998Member, Special emphasis panel in Social and Group Processes, NIMH
1999Member, Special emphasis panel in Social and Group Processes, NIMH
1997-1998Reviewer, B-START proposals in Social and Group Processes, NIMH
2004 Reviewer, B-START proposals in Social and Group Processes, NIMH
2000Personality and Social Psychology Advisory Group, Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute of Aging
2000-2003Member, RPHB-4 Personality, Social Psychology and Inter-Personal Processes study section, NIH
2002Member, NIMH panel to review Minority Predoctoral F31 applications, July.
2004Member, NIMH Special emphasis panel for translational research centers, March.
2005Member, NIMH panel to review Minority Predoctoral F31 applications, February.
2009Member, NIMH ZRG1 RPHB A 58 review panel to review Challenge Grant applications
2010Member, College of CSR reviewers
Editorial Activities (selected)
1996-1998Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
1988-1991Associate Editor: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
1999Guest Editor: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Issue on “Social Stigma: Perspectives of Experimental Social Psychology,” January.
2012-2015Associate Editor, American Psychologist
2012-2014Associate Editor, Archives of Scientific Psychology
2014-2016Editorial Board, Personality and Social Psychology Review
2008-2014Editorial Board, Psychological Review
2014-2016Editorial Board, Personality and Social Psychology Review
2013-2015Editorial Board, Social and Personality Psychology Science
Reviewer for
Administrative Science Quarterly, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Australian Research Council, British Journal of Social Psychology, Child Development, Cognitive Therapy and Research,
Developmental Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Research in Adolescence, Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Social Issues, NIMH B-START Awards, NIMH Personality and Group Processes Panel, National Science Foundation, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, PLOS ONE, Prentice Hall, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Psychological Reports, Psychological Science, Russell Sage Foundation, Schizophrenia Bulletin, Sex Roles, Scott Foresman, Self and Identity,Social Cognition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Sociology of Education.
External Reviews:
2011Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
2011Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Scarborough
Invited Colloquia
1980Loyola University
1981Kellogg Graduate School of Management
1982Carleton College
1983New York University, Michigan State University, University of Iowa, Ohio State University, University of Illinois at Chicago
1984DePaul University, UCLA Graduate School of Management, Carnegie-Mellon University, Department of Marketing, Bell Laboratories (Indian Hill), Purdue University
1985Bell Laboratories (Indian Hill), Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Duke University Department of Marketing, SUNY at Buffalo, Villanova University, St. Bonaventure University
1986
1987Wake Forest University
1988University of Wisconsin
1989University of Toronto, Pennsylvania State University
1990
1991Johns Hopkins University, Ohio State University
1992University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Cornell University, University of Kansas
1993Case-Western Reserve University, Stanford University, University of Waterloo, Yale University, New York University
1994New York University
1995Northwestern University
1996DePaul University
1997Miami University of Ohio
1998University of Kentucky, Dartmouth College, Purdue University, Williams College
1999University of Georgia, University of California at Berkeley, Research Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University; Stanford University Department of Psychology
2000University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California at Santa Barbara, Ohio State University, University of Chicago
2001Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Toronto, Texas A & M University, Albion College
2002La Laguna University of the Canary Islands, Spain; Oakland University; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Waterloo
2003Columbia University
2004Michigan State University; Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
2005Arizona State University; Duke University Department of Psychology
2006Oberlin College; Ohio State University
2007Ross School of Business, Positive Organizational Studies Series, University of Michigan; Research Center for Group Dynamics Seminar Series; Nijmegen University; Leiden University.
2008California State Polytechnic University; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2009Ohio State University
2011Carnegie Mellon University; Princeton University
2012Kyoto University; Hosei University
2013University of Missouri Distinguished Lecture; Purdue University
2014Villanova University; University of California at Davis Distinguished Lecture
Service (Ohio State University)
2010-2013Psychology Department Diversity Committee
2010-presentPresident’s and Provost’s Advisory Committee
2010-2012College of Arts and Sciences Salary Grievance Committee
2011-2012Member, Selection Committee, Distinguished University Professors
2011-2014Member, Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Committee
2012Member, Search Committee, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies
2012, 2013Chair, Social Neuroscience Search Committee
2013-2015Psychology Department Tenure and Promotion Reading Committee
2013ASC Faculty Advisory Council
Service (University of Michigan)
1996-1998Area Chair of Social Psychology
1996-1997Member, Social Area Search Committee
1996-1997Chair, Katz-Newcomb Committee
1997Chair, Brickman Award Committee
1995-1996Member, Graduate Studies Committee
1995-1996Member, Social Area Admissions Committee
1995-1996Member, Social Area Prelim Committee
1997-1998Member, ISR Data Confidentiality Committee
1998-1999Chair, Social Area Admissions Committee
1998-1999Member, Augmented Departmental Executive Committee
2000-2001Chair, Social Psychology Outplacement Committee
2001-2003Member, Department Executive Committee
2003-2004Chair, Social Psychology Prelim Committee
2004-2005Expedited Review Co-Chair, Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board
2004-2005Member, Augmented Departmental Executive Committee
2004-2005Co-Chair, Social Area Admissions Committee
2004-2007Member, Behavioral Science Institutional Review Board
2005-2007Member, LS&A Undergraduate Admissions Committee
2006-2008Member, Executive Committee, Research Center for Group Dynamics
2006Member, Social Psychology Search Committee
2006-2007Chair, Psychology Mentoring Committee
2007 Co-organizer, Winter Research Center for Group Dynamics Seminar Series
2007-2008Member, Executive Board, Rackham Graduate School
2007-2009Member, Psychology Department Mentoring Committee
2008-2011Member, LS&A Curriculum Committee
2008-2011Member, Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, Research Policy Committee
2008-2009Member, Mentoring Committees for Terri Conley, Steven Garcia, Pamela Davis-Kean, Ethan Kross
2010Member, ISR Situational Review Committee to search for director of SRC
2009-2010 Member, Executive Committee, Research Center for Group Dynamics
Teaching
Graduate:
Advanced Social Psychology
Social Stigma
Self and Self-esteem
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Social Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Scientific Inquiry in Psychology
Social Psychology of the Self
Social Stigma
Grant Support
Research Grants
1980-1981Northwestern University, "Intuitive judgments of covariation," $6,000.00, (PI).
1981-1983Northwestern University, "Stereotypes and social isolation," $1,800 (PI).
1983-1984Northwestern University, "Self-esteem, cognition, and the threat-derogation effect." $1,500 (PI).
1985-1988National Science Foundation, "Self-esteem, cognition, and social derogation." $155,000 (PI)
1987-1990National Science Foundation, "Social stigma and self-esteem. " $260,000. (PI).
1990-1994National Science Foundation, "Social Stigma: The consequences of attributional ambiguity." $241,800 (PI).
1991-1992BRSG "Self-esteem and coping among the handicapped." $3,600 (PI).
1994-1998National Science Foundation. “Reactions to stigma: The mediating role of deserving.” $294,000 (PI).
1998-1999U of M Office of the Vice President for Research. “Contingencies of Self-Esteem.” $12,900 (PI).
1998-2004National Institute of Mental Health, 1R01 MH58869. “Contingencies of self-esteem.” $966,040 direct costs. (PI).
2000-2005National Institute of Mental Health, K02 MH01747-01. “Contingencies of self-esteem.” Independent Scientist Award for Jennifer Crocker. $641,520 direct costs. (PI)
2004-2009National Institute of Mental Health, 2R01 058869. “Contingencies of self-esteem.” $1,087,274 direct costs. (PI).
2003-2005Consultant, NIMH R21 grant on “Measuring the Paradox of Self Stigma in Mental Illness,” Patrick Corrigan, University of Chicago, PI.
2005-2009National Science Foundation, BCS-0446567. “Contingent self-worth and learning goals.” $375,000 (PI).
2009-2014Consultant, NCI R01 grant, “Resources, Parent-Child Communication, and Adjustment to Pediatric Cancer.” Louis Penner, Karmanos Cancer Institute, PI.
2012-2015National Science Foundation, NSF SES-1155924. “Manipulating numeracy: Causal effects on judgments and decisions.” $369,735. Co-Investigator. Ellen Peters, PI.
Pending
2014-2017National Institute of Mental Health, “Understanding the role of interpersonal processes in mood disorders.” (Crocker and Quinn, PIs). $550,000 direct costs requested.
Training
National Institute of Mental Health. “Social comparison processes and collective self-esteem.” Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship for Hart Blanton. 1/96-8/97.
National Institute of Mental Health. Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship for Nicole Shelton. 5/1/98-4/30/01.
National Institute of Mental Health. Social Psychology. (Institutional NRSA training grant for Social Psychology at the University of Michigan). 7/1/99-6/30/04 $1,102,685. (PI).
Teaching
Alumnae Board of Northwestern grant to develop a course on "The Psychology of Gender Stereotypes," $2,500. Summer, 1984.
UB Computing and Information Technology Learning Technologies Project, “Computerized presentation materials for social psychology,” 5/1/94-8/31/94. (Principal Investigator). $1500.
Conferences
"The origins and consequences of social prejudice." SUNY at Buffalo, Conversations in the Disciplines. March, 1988. $2,500.00. Co-Principal Investigator with Marilyn Hoskin.
“Defensive Routines in Intergroup Relations.” Russell Sage Foundation, Cultural Contact Program. Conference held in Palo Alto, CA, February, 2005. $38,305 direct costs. Co-organizer with Claude Steele, Robin Ely, and Debra Meyerson.
“Translational Research: Bridging Basic and Applied Perspectives” National Institute of Mental Health, Division of AIDS and Health and Behavior Research. Co-organizer with Bernice Pescosolido.
“Developing Alternatives to Self-interest.” Center for Advancing Research and Solutions for Society grant for an interdisciplinary working group. Co-organizer with Stephanie Brown.
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Publications: Articles in Refereed Journals Jennifer Crocker Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Canevello, A., Granillo, M. T., & Crocker, J. (2013). Predicting change in relationship security: The roles of compassionate and self-image goals. Personal Relationships.
Niiya, Y., Crocker, J., & Mischkowski, D. (2013). Compassionate and self-image goals in the US and Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44, 389-405.
Hsu, D. T., Sanford, B. J., Meyers, K. K., Love, T. M., Hazlett, K. E., Wang, H., Ni, L., Walker, S. J., Mickey, B. J., Korycinski, S. T., Koeppe, R. A., Cocker, J. K., Langenecker, S. A., Zubieta, J.-K. (2013). Response of the µ-opioid system to social rejection and acceptance. Molecular Psychiatry, 18, 1-7. doi:10.1038/mp.2013.96
Bahns, A. J., Crandall, C. S., Canevello, A., & Crocker, J. (2013). Deciding to dissolve: Individual- and relationship-level predictors of roommate breakup. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35, 164-175.
Mayer, S., Erickson, T., Briggs, H., Crocker, J., Liberzon, I., & Abelson, J. L. (2012). Brief cognitive intervention can modulate ACTH response to the Trier Social Stress Test. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 3, 1-1.
Bushman, B. J., Moeller, S. J., Konrath, S., & Crocker, J. (2012).Investigating the link between liking versus wanting self-esteem and depression in a nationally representative sample of American adults. Journal of Personality, 80, 1453-1469.
Burson, A., Crocker, J., Canevello, A., & Mischkowski, D. (2012). Two types of value affirmation: Implications for self-control following social exclusion. Social and Personality Psychology Science, 3, 510-516.
Crocker, J., & Canevello, A. (2012). Consequences of self-image and compassionate goals. In P. G. Devine & A. Plant (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, pp 229-277. New York: Elsevier.
Crocker, J. (2011). Safety in numbers: Shifting from egosystem to ecosystem. Psychological Inquiry, 22, 259-264. DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2011.624978
Crocker, J. (2011). Presidential Address: Self-image and compassionate goals and construction of the social self: Implications for social and personality psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15, 394-407. DOI: 10.1177/1088868311418746
Canevello, A., & Crocker, J. (2011). Changing relationship growth belief: Intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences of compassionate goals. Personal Relationships, 18, 370-391. PMCID: PMC3176594. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6811.2010.01296.x
Sanchez, D. T., Moss-Racusin, C. A., Phelan, J. E., & Crocker, J. (2011). Relationship contingency and sexual motivation in women: Implications for sexual satisfaction. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40, 99-110. PMID: 20174863
Canevello, A., & Crocker, J. (2011). Interpersonal goals, others’ regard for the self, and self-esteem: The paradoxical consequences of self-image and compassionate goals. European Journal of Social Psychology,41, 422-434. DOI: 10.1007/s12646-011-0064-3
Abelson, J. L., Erickson, T., Mayer, S., Briggs, H., Crocker, J., & Liberzon, I. (2011). Compassionate goal orientation can modulate cortisol response to the Trier Social Stress Test. Biological Psychiatry, 69, 87S-87S.
Canevello, A., & Crocker, J. (2011). Interpersonal goals and close relationship processes: Potential links to health. Compass: Health, 5, 346-358.
Lawrence, J. S. L. & Crocker, J. (2011). Stigmatized and dominant cultural groups differentially interpret positive feedback. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42, 165-169.
Crocker, J. (2011). The paradoxical consequences of interpersonal goals: Relationships, distress, and the self. Psychological Studies.
Bushman, B. J., Moeller, S. J., & Crocker, J. (2011). Sweets, sex, or self-esteem? Comparing the value of self-esteem boosts with other pleasant rewards. Journal of Personality, 79, 993-1012. PMID: 21204844. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2011.00712.x
Niiya, Y., Brook, A. T., & Crocker, J. (2010). Contingent self-worth and self-handicapping: Do contingent incremental theorists protect self-esteem? Self and Identity, 9, 276-297.
Canevello, A., & Crocker, J. (2010). Creating good relationships: Responsiveness, relationship quality, and interpersonal goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, 78-106. PMID: 20565187. DOI: 10.1037/a0018186
Reprinted in H. T. Reis (Ed.), Psychology of close relationships. London: Sage.
Crocker, J., Canevello, A., Breines, J. G., & Flynn, H. (2010). Interpersonal goals and change in anxiety and dysphoria: Effects of compassionate and self-image goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 1009-1024. PMID: 20515255
Moeller, S. J., Crocker, J., & Bushman, B. (2009). Creating hostility and conflict: Effects of entitlement and self-image goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 448-452. PMID:20126295
Moeller, S. J., & Crocker, J. (2009). Drinking and desired self-images: Path models of self-image goals, coping motives, binge drinking, and alcohol problems. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 23, 334-340. PMID:19586150
Lawrence, J. A. S., & Crocker, J. (2009). Academic contingencies of self-worth impair positively- and negatively-stereotyped students’ performance in performance goals settings. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 868-874.
Crocker, J., & Hughes, S. (2009). Ecosystem perspective and Barack Obama’s campaign for the Presidency. DuBois Review, 6, 125-136.
Crocker, J., Olivier, M.-A., & Nuer, N. (2009). Self-image goals and compassionate goals: Costs and benefits. Self and Identity, 8, 251-269. PMID: 21218194
Niiya, Y., Ballantyne, R., North, M. S., & Crocker, J. (2008). Gender, contingencies of self-worth, and achievement goals as predictors of academic cheating in a controlled laboratory setting. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 30, 76-83.
Crocker, J., & Canevello, A. (2008). Creating and undermining social support in communal relationships: The role of compassionate and self-image goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 555-575. PMID 18729694
Niiya, Y., & Crocker, J. (2008). Mastery goals and contingent self-worth: A field study. International Review of Social Psychology, 21, 135-155.
Crocker, J., Niiya, Y., & Mischkowski, D. (2008). Why does writing about important values reduce defensiveness? Self-affirmation and the role of positive, other-directed feelings. Psychological Science, 19, 740-747. PMID 18727791
Garcia, J. A., & Crocker, J. (2008). Reasons for disclosing depression matter: The consequences of having egosystem and ecosystem goals. Social Science and Medicine, 67, 453-462. PMID:18450349