DONNA M. GARCIA
Curriculum Vitae—December, 2008
| University of Guelph Ontario Department of Psychology Guelph, Ontario |
Home Phone: (519) 763-5889 Email: donnagarcia3@gmail.com Webpage: www.donnagarcia.com |
EDUCATION & TRAINING
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, 2008 to 2009 Mentor: Dr. Leanne Son Hing (CIFAR: Successful Societies Scholar) |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, 2006 to current Mentor: Dr. Victoria Esses |
| Ph.D. | Social Psychology, University of Kansas, 2006 Chairs: Dr. Nyla Branscombe and Dr. Monica Biernat |
| M.A. | Applied Social Psychology, University of Guelph, 2001 Chair: Dr. Serge Desmarais |
| B.A. | Honours Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1999 (with distinction) |
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
GRANT APPLICATIONS
Adams, G., O’Brien, L. T., Garcia, D. M., & Hammer, E. D. (2008). Collaborative research: A cultural-psychological analysis of gender discrimination (and privilege) in STEM fields, National Science Foundation. Research on Gender in Science and Engineering. Amount Requested: ~ $475,000. Status: Invited full proposal submitted April 2008.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My program of research focuses on the self-perpetuating nature of social inequality via its effects on human functioning (e.g., motivation, aspirations, achievement, self-regulation, and psychological and physiological well-being). Specifically, I am interested in the impact that inequality has on psychosocial
processes, which in turn impair the successful functioning of low status group members but often enhance the functioning of those from high status groups. My study of the effects of social inequality involves three related areas: (1) the psycho-social mechanisms underlying the relationship between social inequality and successful human functioning, (2) the social pressures that discouragepeople from challenging discrimination, and (3) the self-fulfilling role of cultural oppression.
MANUSCRIPTS & PRESENTATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Garcia, D. M., Horstman Reser, A., Amo, R., Redersdorff, S., & Branscombe, N. R. (2005). Perceivers’ responses to in-group and out-group members who blame a negative outcome on discrimination. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 769-780.
Garcia, D. M., Desmarais, S., Branscombe, N. R., & Gee, S. S. (2005). Opposition to redistributive employment policies for women: The role of policy experience and group interest. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 583-602.
Adams, G., Garcia, D. M., Purdie-Vaughns, V., & Steele, C. M. (2006). The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, 42, 602-615.
Schmitt, M. T., Branscombe, N. R., Silvia, P. J., Garcia, D. M., & Spears, R. (2006). Categorizing at the group-level in response to intragroup social comparisons: A self-categorization theory integration of self-evaluation and social identity motives. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 297-314.
Adams, G., Fryberg, S., Garcia, D. M., & Delgado-Torres (2006). The psychology of engagement with First Nations ethnicities: A cultural perspective. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12, 493-508.
Guimond, S., Branscombe, N. R., Brunot, S., Buunk, A. P., Chatard, A., Désert, M., Garcia, D. M., Haque, S., Martinot, D. & Yzerbyt, V. (2007). Gender, culture and the self: Variations and impact of social comparison processes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92, 1118-1134.
Outten, H. R., Schmitt, M. T., Garcia, D. M., & Branscombe, N. R. (in press). Coping options: Missing links between minority group identification and psychological well-being. Applied Psychology: An International Review (Special Issue).
Chapters and Other Publications
Garcia, D. M. & Jackson, L. M. The experiences of prejudice and privilege. To appear in L. M. Jackson (Ed.), Psychology of prejudice: How competition, ideology, and religion shape attitudes. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Esses, V. & Garcia, D. M. Intergroup conflict (2008). In J. M. Levine & M. A. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of group processes and intergroup relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Desmarais, S., & Gee, S. S. (2006). The effects of social comparisons and policy experience on attitudes toward redistributive social policies. In S. Guimond (Ed.), Social comparison and social psychology: Understanding cognition, intergroup relations and culture (pp. 151-173). Cambridge, UK:Cambridge University Press.
Guimond, S., Chatard, A., Branscombe, N. R., Brunot, S., Buunk, B., Conway, M. A., Crisp, R., Dambrun, M., Désert, M., Garcia, D. M., Haque, S., Leyens, J.-P., Lorenzi-Cioldi, F., Martinot, D., Redersdorff, S., & Yzerbyt, V. (2006). Social comparisons across cultures II: Change and stability in self-views - experimental evidence. In S. Guimond (Ed.), Social comparison and social psychology: Understanding cognition, intergroup relations and culture (pp. 318-344). Cambridge, UK:Cambridge University Press.
Guelph and District Multicultural Association. (2001) Recruiting Young Minds: Youth Involvement in Canadian Neo-Nazi Racialist Groups (National Crime Prevention Centre No. 3340-G5). Ottawa, ON, Canada: contributing author.
Working papers (completed manuscripts)
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Biernat, M., Schmitt, M. T., & Ellemers, N. Beliefs about discrimination and responses to women who complain about unfair treatment.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Croizet, J-C., & Adams, G. The ups and downs of social comparisons: A social comparison approach to understanding stereotype threat processes.
O’Brien, L., Garcia, D.M., & Kordys, J. White American’s opposition toward affirmative action: An examination of principled conservatism and group interest
Jackson, L. M., & Garcia, D. M. Effects of beneficiary group and program type on attitudes toward affirmative action programs: Evidence for the group dominance perspective.
Son Hing, L. S., Bobocel, D. R., Zanna, M. P., Garcia, D. M., Gee, S. S., & Orazietti, K. Meritocracy: Justice principle or system justification belief?
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., & Biernat, M. R. Working women’s reactions to women who claim discrimination: The role of worldviews and beliefs about discriminatory events.
Working papers (in preparation)
Garcia, D. M., Son Hing, L. S., Pratto, F. Merging perspectives on the effects of social inequality on successful human functioning: Psychology, epidemiology and population health literatures.
Garcia, D. M., Gee, S. S., Branscombe, N. R., & Desmarais, S. Structure-based gender gaps: Who (or what) needs to be explained?
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., & Biernat, M. R. To complain or not to complain: The psychological consequences of expressing or suppressing claims of discrimination.
Garcia, D. M., Adams, G., Pickett, K., Joler, E. N., & Steele, C. M. Effects of a suggestion of sexism on perceptions of instructor competence: Biased perception or behavioral confirmation?
Invited Talks & Colloquia
Intragroup social consequences of claiming discrimination. Invited brownbag talk to be given at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario (November, 2008).
Why are women underrepresented in the sciences? A cultural perspective of gender differences in selection, motivation, performance, and retention. Invited speaker for the Pattullo Conference hosted by MPOWIR (Duke University): Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention, Charleston, South Caroline (May, 2008).
Intragroup social consequences of claiming discrimination. Invited department colloquium given at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (January, 2008).
Intragroup social consequences of claiming discrimination. Invited brownbag talk given at York University, Toronto, Ontario (November, 2007).
Intragroup social consequences of claiming discrimination. Invited talk given at University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas (September, 2007).
The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation. Invited talk given at University of Windsor, Ontario (February, 2007).
The detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction situation. Invited talk given at University of Guelph, Ontario (January, 2007).
Responses to people who claim discrimination: Intragroup processes and social norms. Invited talk given at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (January, 2005).
Responses to people who claim discrimination: Intragroup processes and social norms. Invited talk given at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (February, 2005).
Conference Chair and Moderator Roles
Garcia, D.M. (2008). Moderator; Democracy is the opiate of the masses. Roundtable at Psychogeographies: The Terrain of Spectacle and Affect, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of Guelph, ON, Canada.
Garcia, D. M. & Kaiser, C. R. (2006, January). The public side of discrimination attributions: Consequences for intrapersonal, intergroup, and intragroup processes. Symposium organized for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs,
CA, U.S.A. Speakers: Cheryl Kaiser, Donna Garcia, Gretchen Sechrist, Alex Czopp, and Brenda Major (Discussant).
Selected Conference Presentations
Garcia, D. M. (2008, June). When will women support ingroup discrimination claimers? Poster presented at the 15th meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Opatija, Croatia.
Garcia, D. M. (2008, February). Women’s reactions to women who claim discrimination: The role of worldviews and beliefs about discriminatory events. In Z. Kinias and L. O’Brien (Chairs), Cultural representations of inequality and diversity. Symposium conducted at the 9th meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Garcia, D. M. (2006, January). Responses to ingroup members who attribute an unfair outcome to discrimination: The role of social norms. In D. M. Garcia and C. R. Kaiser (Chairs), The public side of discrimination attributions: Consequences for intrapersonal, intergroup, and intragroup processes. Symposium conducted at the 7th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Palm Springs, CA, USA.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Redersdorff, S., & Horstman Reser, A. & (2005, July). Rejection of ingroup and outgroup members who make attributions to prejudice. In N. R. Branscombe & J. M. Marques (Chairs), Subjective group dynamics: Reactions to deviants as a function of social identity concerns. Symposium conducted at the 14th meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Würzburg, Germany.
Adams, G., Fryberg, S., Garcia, D. M., & Delgado-Torres (2005, June). The psychology of engagement with First Nations identity: Implications for the concept of acculturation. In S. Safdar (Chair), Perspectives and measurements of acculturation: A close look at dimensions of intercultural contact. Symposium conducted at the 66th annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Croizet J. C., & Adams, G. (2004, June). Social identity threat and the role of social comparison. Paper presented in J. C. Croizet, S. Spencer, C. M. Steele, & F. Butera (Organizers), Understanding the academic underachievement of low status group members, European Association of Experimental Social Psychology Small Group Meeting, Paris, France.
Adams, G., Fryberg, S. & Garcia D. M. (2004, May). The psychology of engagement with Indigenous Nations ethnicity. In M. Yellow Bird (Chair), An Indigenous Nations perspective on racism and discrimination. Symposium conducted at the conference for Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Garcia D. M. & Adams, G. (2004, February). Detrimental effects of a suggestion of sexism in an instruction interaction. In G. Adams (Chair), Sociocultural approaches to racism and sexism: Implications for theory and practice. Symposium conducted at the 5th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Adams, G., & Croizet J. C. (2003, June). A social comparison approach to stereotype threat processes. Paper presented at the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology Small Group Meeting, Jena, Germany.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Schmitt, M. T., Silvia, P. J., & Spears, R. (2003, June). Approaching or avoiding group-level categorization in response to intragroup social comparisons. In M. Wohl (Chair), Facing discrimination: Response strategies of disadvantaged groups. Symposium conducted at the 64th annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Garcia, D. M., Branscombe, N. R., Desmarais, S., Jackson, L. M., & Gee, S. S. (2002, June). Merit-based opposition to affirmative action: Justice-based resistance or contemporary sexism? Poster session presented at the 13th meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, San Sebastian, Spain.
Jackson, L. M., Garcia, D. M., & Desmarais, S. (2002, June). Prejudice-based versus justice-based resistance to employment equity programs. Poster presented at the 4th biennial meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Garcia, D. M., Desmarais, S., Branscombe, N. R., & Jackson, L. M. (2001, June). Examining both sides of inequity. Paper presented at the 62nd annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Quebec City, Canada.
Garcia, D. M., Desmarais, S., Jackson, L. M, & Pancer, S. M. (2001, May). Meritocratic ideology and resistance to equity programs: Principled objection or rationalized prejudice? Poster presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Garcia, D. M., Pancer, S. M., Desmarais, S., & Jackson, L. M. (2001, May). Measuring beliefs that social and monetary rewards are based on merit. Poster presented at the 73rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Garcia, D. M., Pancer, S. M., Desmarais, S., & Jackson, L. M. (2000, June). Assessing beliefs in the association between rewards and merit. Poster presented at the 61st annual meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Ottawa, ON, Canada., U.S.A.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Mentoring: Primary advisory for honour students
Program Development and Evaluation Experience
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant Positions
Research Assistant Positions
Ryerson University, with Dr. Lynne Jackson: Oct 2001 to Dec 2001; June 2001 to Aug 2001; Sept. 2000 to Dec. 2000.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Victoria Esses, Professor |
Nyla Branscombe, Professor |
Monica Biernat, Professor |
Glenn Adams, Associate Professor |