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Rebecca S. Bigler, Ph.D.
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CURRICULUM VITAE

Email: bigler@psy.utexas.edu
Phone: 471-9917 Lab: 471-6261
Office: SEA 5.210, Lab: SEA 1.218 (A-E)

Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab

See also Developmental Psychologyy, Children's Research Lab

Rebecca S. Bigler received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests are social cognition in children, gender role development, racial stereotyping.

Courses

UNDERGRADUATE:

Psy 304, Introduction to Child Psychology
Psy 365G, Gender and Racial Attitudes

GRADUATE:

Psy 394K, Fundamentals of Social and Personality Development

Selected Publications

Bigler, R. S. (1999). The use of multicultural curricula and materials to counter racism in children. Journal of Social Issues, 55, 687-705.

Liben, L. S., Bigler, R. S., & Krogh, H. R. (2001). Pink and blue collar jobs: Children's judgments of job status and job aspirations in relation to sex of worker. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 79, 346-363.

Liben, L. S., & Bigler, R. S. (2002). The developmental course of gender differentiation: Conceptualizing, measuring, and evaluating constructs and pathways. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 67, (2, Serial No. 269).

Brown, C. S., & Bigler, R. S. (2002). Effects of minority status in the classroom on children's intergroup attitudes. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 83, 77-110.

Bigler, R. S., Averhart, C. A., & Liben, L.S. (2003). Race and the workforce: Occupational status, aspirations, and stereotyping among African American children. Developmental Psychology, 39, 572-580.

Brown, C. S., & Bigler, R. S. (2004). Children's perceptions of gender discrimination. Developmental Psychology, 40, 714-726.

Bigler, R. S., & Liben, L. S. (2006). A developmental intergroup theory of social stereotypes and prejudice. In R. V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior (Vol. 34, pp. 39-89). San Diego: Elsevier.

Patterson, M. M., & Bigler, R. S. (2006). Preschool children's attention to environmental messages about groups: Social categorization and the origins of intergroup bias. Child Development, 77, 847-860.

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