Brown Bag Seminar: Bye the Books--How Student Perceptions of Inequality Affect Academic Engagement

Professor Brian Lowery gave the talk "Bye the Books: How Student Perceptions of Inequality Affect Academic Engagement" on March 13 as part of SCOPE's Brown Bag Seminar Series.  

Researchers have long seen evidence that ethnic minorities and women show lower levels of academic engagement than Whites and men. Lowery's talk provides evidence that the way inequality is described can reverse this pattern of academic (dis)engagement. He will also touch on what these findings tell us about the psychological and moral burdens associated with social inequality.

Brian Lowery is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford. A social psychologist, Lowery's research focuses on the operation of unconscious racial attitudes and on how individuals perceive inequality. His teaching centers on translating basic knowledge about human interactions into lessons for managers, and on managing diversity. He has written about underlying assumptions that may exacerbate existing inequity, affirmative action, and in-group and out-group dynamics in major scholarly journals including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Law and Human Behavior. He also oversees the Lowery Lab, which focuses on how individuals perceive inequality.