Stacey Sinclair
{{Short description|American psychologist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Stacey Sinclair
|image = Stacey Sinclair in 2018.jpg
|caption = Sinclair at Princeton University in 2018
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|5|31}}
| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York
| spouse = Joseph Barnes
| children = 2
| alma_mater = Stanford University, University of California Los Angeles (M.A. and Ph.D)
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Stacey Sinclair (born May 31, 1971) is an American psychologist and professor of psychology and public affairs, and associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University.{{Cite web|title=Department of Psychology|url=https://psych.princeton.edu/person/stacey-sinclair|access-date=2020-06-10|website=psych.princeton.edu}} Her research focuses on how interpersonal interactions translate culturally held prejudices into individual thoughts and actions.{{Cite magazine|date=2017-08-31|title=The 2017-2018 APS Board|url=https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/the-2017-2018-aps-board|magazine=Observer|publisher=Association for Psychological Science|volume=30|issue=7}}
Personal life
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Stacey Sinclair was born on May 31, 1971, in Brooklyn, New York. She was born to Alice and Ronald Sinclair. Her mother, Alice, worked as a Registered Nurse Midwife and her father, Ronald, worked as a Residential Property Manager Executive. Sinclair lived in the Bronx Borough of New York City until she was 9 years old. After this, her family moved to the San Fernando Valley in southern California. While there, she attended James Monroe High School. She now lives with her husband, Joseph Barnes, and has two children.
Education and career
In 1992, Sinclair received Bachelor of Arts degrees, from Stanford University, in psychology and economics.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Department of Psychology|url=https://psych.princeton.edu/person/stacey-sinclair|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-06-10|website=psych.princeton.edu}} She received her master's degree in social psychology in 1993 and a Ph.D. in 1999, both from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=UCLA Social Psychology Ph.D's|url=http://lieber.bol.ucla.edu/area/PhDemploystatus.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2018-11-14|website=lieber.bol.ucla.edu}}
Sinclair joined the psychology department at the University of Virginia in 1999 as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 2006. In 2008, she became an associate professor in the Psychology and African American studies departments at Princeton University. She's currently a Full Professor and teaches in both the Department of Psychology and the School of Public and International Affairs{{Cite web|title=Stacey Sinclair|url=http://aas.princeton.edu/p/ssinclr/|access-date=2018-11-14|website=Princeton African American Studies}} at Princeton University.
She is currently Head of Mathey College.{{Cite web|title=Mathey College|url=https://matheycollege.princeton.edu/|access-date=2020-06-10|website=matheycollege.princeton.edu}}
Honors and awards
Sinclair's honors and awards include:
- Fellow, American Psychological Society{{Cite web |url=https://psych.princeton.edu/news/staceysinclair|title=Professor Stacey Sinclair appointed head of Mathey College |publisher=Department of Psychology, Princeton University|access-date=2018-11-14}} (2016)
- Fellow, Society for Personality and Social Psychology{{Cite web|url=http://www.spsp.org/news-center/announcements/2017-spsp-award-recipients|title=Announcing the 2017 SPSP Award Recipients|website=Society for Personality and Social Psychology |access-date=2018-11-14}} (2012)
- Fellow, Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (2007)
- Fellow, Society of Experimental Social Psychology (2006)
- National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Minority Fellowship (1992-1996)
Research
In her publications, Sinclair focuses on intergroup attitudes and implicit biases.{{Cite journal|last1=Huntsinger|first1=Jeffrey R.|last2=Sinclair|first2=Stacey|last3=Clore|first3=Gerald L.|date=May 2009|title=Affective regulation of implicitly measured stereotypes and attitudes: Automatic and controlled processes|journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology|volume=45|issue=3|pages=560–566|doi=10.1016/j.jesp.2009.01.007|issn=0022-1031}} Some of her representative publications include studies about interracial anxiety in movement {{Cite journal|last1=Kenrick|first1=Andreana C.|last2=Sinclair|first2=Stacey|last3=Richeson|first3=Jennifer|last4=Verosky|first4=Sara C.|last5=Lun|first5=Janetta|date=February 2016|title=Moving while Black: Intergroup attitudes influence judgments of speed|journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology. General|volume=145|issue=2|pages=147–154|doi=10.1037/xge0000115|issn=1939-2222|pmid=26523423}} and the effects of implicit racial biases on performance.{{Cite journal|last1=Jacoby-Senghor|first1=Drew S.|last2=Sinclair|first2=Stacey|last3=Shelton|first3=J. Nicole|date=March 2016|title=A lesson in bias: The relationship between implicit racial bias and performance in pedagogical contexts|journal=Journal of Experimental Social Psychology|volume=63|pages=50–55|doi=10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.010|issn=0022-1031}} She has other works on implicit bias –– both as a factor in racial disparities in academic achievement and in interpersonal interactions among whites.{{citation | last1=Greenwald | first1=Anthony G. | last2=McGhee | first2=Debbie E. | last3=Schwartz | first3=Jordan L. K. | title=Implicit Association Test | publisher=American Psychological Association (APA) |work=APA PsycTests: Citation and Description | year=1998 | doi=10.1037/t03782-000}}{{Cite journal|last1=Jacoby-Senghor|first1=Drew S.|last2=Sinclair|first2=Stacey|last3=Smith|first3=Colin Tucker|date=September 2015|title=When bias binds: Effect of implicit outgroup bias on ingroup affiliation|journal=Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|volume=109|issue=3|pages=415–433|doi=10.1037/a0039513|issn=1939-1315|pmid=26280842}}
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Category:American women psychologists
Category:20th-century American psychologists
Category:21st-century American psychologists
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:Scientists from New York City
Category:People from San Fernando, California
Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:University of Virginia faculty
Category:Princeton University faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Psychological Association
Category:Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists