Lauren Duncan

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Smith College, Social, Personality, and Political Psychology

Research Expertise

Personality Psychology

Social Psychology

Political activism

Feminist psychology

Political Science and International Relations

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Clinical Psychology

Sociology and Political Science

Philosophy

Developmental and Educational Psychology

Gender Studies

Geriatrics and Gerontology

Aging

Life-span and Life-course Studies

Education

Applied Psychology

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

About

Lauren Duncan received a doctorate in personality psychology and a graduate certificate in women’s studies from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s in economics from the University of Southern California. She is currently working with Smith students to understand why some people become politically active whereas others remain inactive. Some recent projects include the development of measures of group consciousness or politicized group identities—specifically feminist consciousness and queer consciousness. She is also working on a psychobiography of Gloria Steinem to try to explain how she became a feminist icon. Most recently, she has been collecting and translating oral histories of Italian feminist and queer activists in Italy. <br>

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Traits and motives: Toward an integration of two traditions in personality research.

Psychological Review

1998

Motivation for Collective Action: Group Consciousness as Mediator of Personality, life Experiences, and Women’s Rights Activism

Political Psychology

1999

Authoritarianism and Gender Roles: Toward a Psychological Analysis of Hegemonic Relationships

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

1997

The Psychology of Collective Action

The Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology

2012

Personal Political Salience: The Role of Personality in Collective Identity and Action

Political Psychology

2007

The intersection of life stage and social events: Personality and life outcomes.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

1995

Women's Relationship to Feminism

Psychology of Women Quarterly

2010

Personality and social change: Individual differences, life path, and importance attributed to the women's movement.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

1998

Stereotype susceptibility narrows the gender gap in imagined self-rotation performance

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

2006

Authoritarianism and Political Impoverishment: Deficits in Knowledge and Civic Disinterest

Political Psychology

2002

Midlife women's generativity and authoritarianism: Marriage, motherhood, and 10 years of aging.

Psychology and Aging

2007

Achieving ego integrity: Personality development in late midlife

Journal of Research in Personality

2008

Still Bringing the Vietnam War Home: Sources of Contemporary Student Activism

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

1995

What Makes the Political Personal? Openness, Personal Political Salience, and Activism

Journal of Personality

2010

Integrating Gender into the Political Science Core Curriculum

PS: Political Science & Politics

2012

Personal Political Salience as a Self‐Schema: Consequences for Political Information Processing

Political Psychology

2005

Successful Aging in Late Midlife: The Role of Personality Among College-Educated Women

Journal of Adult Development

2013

Appreciating life’s complexities: Assessing narrative ego integrity in late midlife

Journal of Research in Personality

2009

Gender and Motivation for Achievement, Affiliation–Intimacy, and Power

Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology

2009

Powerlessness and the Use of Indirect Aggression in Friendships

Sex Roles

2006

MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges

Political Psychology

2022

A Generational Analysis of Women's Rights Activists

Psychology of Women Quarterly

2000

Authoritarianism as an Agent of Status Quo Maintenance: Implications for Women's Careers and Family Lives

Sex Roles

2003

Authoritarianism of Parents and Offspring: Intergenerational Politics and Adjustment to College

Journal of Research in Personality

1999

Assessing Politicized Sexual Orientation Identity: Validating the Queer Consciousness Scale

Journal of Homosexuality

2016

Authoritarianism, Cognitive Rigidity, and the Processing of Ambiguous Visual Information

The Journal of Social Psychology

2014

Using Group Consciousness Theories to Understand Political Activism: Case Studies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Ingo Hasselbach

Journal of Personality

2010

VII. What Feminist and Political Psychologists Can Learn from Each Other: The Case of Authoritarianism

Feminism & Psychology

2006

Personality and Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue

Journal of Personality

2010

Better policy interventions through intersectionality

Social Issues and Policy Review

2022

Understanding Leaders of Repressive Social Movements

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

2003

Assessing politicized gender identity: Validating the Feminist Consciousness Scale for men and women

The Journal of Social Psychology

2020

Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender

Unknown Venue

2016

Psychology and Political Participation

The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation

2022

Using a “Messy” Problem as a Departmental Assessment of Undergraduates' Ability to Think Like Psychologists

Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

2016

Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender: Reflections on Theory, Research, and Action

Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender

2016

Erratum to: Stereotype susceptibility narrows the gender gap in imagined self-rotation performance

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

2007

Can Authoritarianism Be Reduced to Need for Social Conformity?

PsycCRITIQUES

2005

The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents

Unknown Venue

2024

Gender, Power, and Participation in Collective Action

The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology

2023

Journeys Through Feminist Psychological Science: Lessons Learned and a Look to What Lies Ahead

Feminist Perspectives on Building a Better Psychological Science of Gender

2016

Tactics and Identity Politics: Understanding Socially Conservative and Economically Conservative Women’s Political Organizations

Sex Roles

2009

Casting a Wide Net Over the Field of Political Psychology

PsycCRITIQUES

2004

Politicized Collective Identity: Collective Identity and Political Protest

Social Identification in Groups

Feminist Consciousness and Women's Political Participation: Activists, Engaged Observers, Nonparticipants

PsycEXTRA Dataset

2007

Gloria Steinem: The childhood foundations of a feminist

Journal of Personality

2022

Education

University of Michigan

Ph.D., Psychology

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Experience

Smith College

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