Claude Steele is a half African American American social scientist at the Stanford University, where he has taught since the year, 1991. He is best known due to his work on stereotype threat. He got his bachelor degree in psychology from Hiram College in Ohio in the year, 1967. Then, he studied social psychology, and subsequently getting an M.A. in 1969 and a Ph.D. in the year, 1971 from the famous Ohio State University.
According to some of the social psychology network, the research works of Claude Steele are based basically on three areas. Claude has been interested in processes of self-evaluation particularly to know the ways people choose to cope with the threat of self-image and this research has been carried by him throughout his career. This work led to a universal theory of self-affirmation processes. The second interest of Claude Steele which has its origin from the first, and the theory is how group stereotypes threaten such groups as African Americans in every academic field by posing some sort of belongingness and extra self-evaluative ness and women in quantitative domains are able to influence academic identities and intellectual performance.
And lastly, Claude has been interested in the behaviors influenced by various types of addictions and more particularly alcohol addiction, where he worked hard with some of his colleagues which let to the theory of alcohol myopia. This is a theory where you will get to find various types of alcohol's stress-reducing effects and social effects, these effects may subside its addictive capacity. These are explained as a result of the narrowing of perceptual and cognitive functioning of alcohol. Claude Steele?s twin brother is a fellow of the Hoover Institute, Shelby Steele and a conservative writer.
Claude Steele had various teaching appointments in a number of universities in the world. Some the details of his teaching career are:
Claude was associated with the University of Utah from 1971 to 1973. The University of Utah is situated in Salt Lake City. It is the flagship public research university in the Utah state, and one of the 10 institutions which constitute the Utah System of Higher Education. As of Fall Semester, 2007, the university presently enrolls 6,604 graduate and 21,421 undergraduate students and possesses 1,419 regular faculty members.
From 1987 to 1991 Claude Steele worked as a faculty in the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a co-ed public research university in the Michigan state. The university was constituted in 1817 in Detroit, almost about 20 years before the territory of Michigan became a state officially, and moved to the Ann Arbor in 1837. Today, this is the oldest university of the state and the major flagship campus of the University of Michigan system, which now possesses two satellite campuses, University of Michigan, Dearborn and the University of Michigan, Flint.
Claude Steele also worked as a faculty member in different Universities like the University of Washington from 1973 to 1985 and then in the Stanford University he is continuing his work from 1991.
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