Wendy Williams

Professor

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AUTHORED BOOKS/EDITED VOLUMES*

  • Williams, W. M., Blythe, T., White, N., Li, J., Sternberg, R. J., & Gardner, H. I. (1996). Practical intelligence for school. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
  • Williams, W. M. (1996). The reluctant reader: Why children don't choose to read and how to help them. New York: Warner Books. (Translated into German and Chinese in 1997; published by iPublish internet publishing service in 2000)
  • Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W. M. (2010). The mathematics of sex: How biology and society conspire to limit talented women and girls. New York: Oxford University Press. (Reviewed in Science : Miller, R. T. (2009). Women in science: Preference and penalties differ, Vol. 326 (20 November 2009), 1063-4)
  • Williams, W. M. (Ed.) (2000). Ranking ourselves: Intelligence testing, affirmative action, and educational policy. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 6(1). (Guest Editor of American Psychological Association journal)
  • Sternberg, R. J., & Williams, W. M. (2010). Educational psychology, second edition. Boston: Merrill. (Introductory college-level textbook)
  • Williams, W. M. (Ed.) (2002). Teaching children real-world knowledge and reasoning. Developmental Review, 22. (Guest Editor of Special Issue)
  • Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W. M. (Eds.) (2007). Why aren’t more women in science? Top researchers debate the evidence. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Books. (Winner: 2007 Independent Publisher Book Award--Bronze Award, 65 national categories, 2,690 books submitted for 2007 awards; Reviewed in Science , 13 July 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5835, pp. 199-200: Women in Science: Can Evidence Inform the Debate? by Marcia C. Linn; Reviewed in Science News , March 24, 2007, Vol. 171, page 191; Reviewed in Scientific American Mind: Branan, N. (2007), A Lab of Her Own, review of Why Aren’t More Women in Science?, p. 81, vol. 18, number 1, Feb.-Mar. 2007; Reviewed in five additional journals/periodicals.)

SOME RECENT ARTICLES, CHAPTERS & EDITORIALS*

  • Williams, W.M., & Ceci, S.J. (2017). Charles Murray’s ‘Provocative’ talk. Gray Matter Editorial, Sunday New York Times, April 16, 2017.
  • Williams, W. M., & Ceci, S. J. (2015; April 13). National Hiring Experiments Reveal 2 to-1 Faculty Preference for Women on STEM Tenure Track. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112 , no. 17, 5360–5365. (Ranked 14th-highest-impact science article in the world for 2015; Ranked #2 of 1,002 articles in PNAS; 178th highest impact of 4,662,000 total articles in scholarly database—Top 0.00004% of all scholarly articles; downloaded 235,000 times as of July 2019) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abstract DOI:10.1073/pnas.1418878112
  • Williams, W. M., & Ceci, S. J. (2012). When scientists choose motherhood. American Scientist, 100 (2), 138-145. (Feature article) PMID: 24596430
  • Williams, W.M., Mahajan, A., Thoemmes, F., Barnett, S.M., Vermeylen, F., Cash, B., & Ceci, S.J. (2017). Does gender of administrator matter? National study explores university administrators’ attitudes about retaining women STEM professors. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00700
  • Williams, W.M., & Ceci, S.J. (2015). The myth about women in science. CNN Editorial. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/opinions/williams-ceci-women-in-science/index.html
  • Williams, W. M., & Ceci, S. J. (2014, November 2). Academic science isn’t sexist. The Sunday New York Times, “Gray Matter” Editorial. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opinion/sunday/academic-science-isnt-sexist.html?_r=0
  • Williams, W. M., Barnett, S. M., & Wethington, E. (2015). What women in science need to know about work-life balance. In Success Strategies of Women in Science: A Portable Mentor (P. Pritchard, Ed.). New York: Elsevier.
  • Williams, W.M., & Ceci, S.J. (2015). Describing applicants in gendered language might influence academic science hiring. American Scientist. Published May 7, 2015. http://www.americanscientist.org/blog/pub/gendered-language-science-hiring
  • Williams, W. M. (2018). Underrepresentation of women in science. Frontiers in Psychology, 22 January 2018. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02352
  • Williams, W. M., Barnett, S. M., & Sumner, R. A. (2013). Where are all the women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields? In S. Vinnicombe, R. J. Burke, S. Blake-Beard, & L. L. Moore (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Promoting Women’s Careers. London: Edward Elgar.
  • Valla, J. M., & Williams, W. M. (2012). Increasing achievement and higher-education representation of under-represented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields: A review of current K-12 intervention programs. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 18 (1), 21–53. PMID: 22942637
  • Ceci, S.J. & Williams, W.M. (2018). Socio-political values infiltrate the assessment of scientific research. In J. Crawford & L. Jussim (Eds.), The Politics of Social Psychology. London: Taylor & Francis.
  • Sternberg, K., Williams, W. M., & Sternberg, R.J. (2019). How parents can maximize children’s cognitive abilities. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), Handbook of Parenting. London: Routledge.
  • Ceci, S.J., & Williams, W.M. (2018). Who decides what is acceptable speech on campus? A psycho-legal analysis. Perspectives in Psychological Science.
  • Ceci, S. J., Williams, W. M., & Barnett, S. M. (2009, March). Women’s underrepresentation in science: Sociocultural and biological considerations. Psychological Bulletin, 135 (2) : 218-261. PMID: 1925407
  • Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W. M. (2010). Sex Differences in Math-Intensive Fields. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19(5) , 275-279. (“Most downloaded article” of October 2010 on Association for Psychological Science website) PMID: 21152367
  • Whitecraft, M. A. & Williams, W. M. (2011). Why are there so few women computer scientists? In: Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It (second edition), ed. G. Wilson. Cambridge, MA: Riley.
  • Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W. M. (2011). Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108: 3157-3162 (issue 8); (featured as first article profile in "This Week in PNAS" and downloaded 67,000 times and cited 529 times as of January 2018). PMID: 21300892
  • Barnett, S.M., Rindermann, H., Williams, W. M., & Ceci, S.J. (2011). The relevance of intelligence for society: Predictiveness and relevance of IQ for societal outcomes. In S. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. Pages 666-682.
  • Williams, W. M., & Barnett, S.M. (2013). Modern Critique of IQ and testing. In P. L. Mason (Ed.), Race and Racism, 2nd edition. New York: Macmillan.
  • Rindermann, H., Ceci, S. J. & Williams, W. M. (2013). Whither cognitive talent? Understanding high ability, its development, relevance and furtherance. In S. B. Kaufman (Ed.), Beyond Talent or Practice: The Complexity of Greatness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Ceci, S. J., Ginther, D., Khan, S., & Williams, W. M. (2014). Women in science: A changing landscape. Psychological Science in the Public Interest (whole-issue, book-length article).
  • DeFraine, W.C., Williams, W.M., & Ceci, S.J. (2014). Attracting STEM talent: Do STEM students prefer traditional or work/life-interaction labs? PLoS ONE 9(2):e89801. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0089801 PMID: 24587044
  • Ceci, S. J., Ginther, D., Kahn, S., & Williams, W. M. (2015). Women in science: the path to progress. Scientific American Mind, 26.
  • Ceci, S.J., & Williams, W.M. (2015). Women scientists’ academic-hiring advantage is unwelcome news for some, Part 1. Huffington Post Science , Published May 1, 2015: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-m-williams/women-scientists-academic_1_b_7181676.html
  • Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W.M. (2015). Women have substantial advantage in STEM faculty hiring, except when competing against more accomplished men. Frontiers in Psychology, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01532
  • Williams, W. M. & Ceci, S. J. (2015; June 12). Op Ed: Room for Debate: Sexist image of scientists is wrong. The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/06/11/nobel-winning-sexism-in-the-lab/sexist-image-of-male-scientists-is-wrong
  • Ceci, S. J., Williams & W.M. (2015, September 10). Op Ed: Passions supplant reason in dialog on women in science. Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Passions-Supplant-Reason-in/232989?cid=megamenu

*I have authored/coauthored nine books, edited/co-edited six volumes, and written over 150 articles, chapters, essays and editorials, all listed on my current vita.

Klarman Hall
G108 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
wendywilliams@cornell.edu
607/255-2537

Education

  • Ph.D. 1991 - Yale University, Psychology
  • M.Phil. 1986 - Yale University, Physical Anthropology
  • M.S. 1985 - Yale University, Psychology
  • B.A. 1982 - Columbia University, English & Biology

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Daniel Casasanto

Associate Professor

Klarman Hall
MVR G229
casasanto@cornell.edu

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  • Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT in 2005. 

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Stephen Ceci

Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psychology

Klarman Hall
G110 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
stevececi@cornell.edu
607/255-0828

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Marianella Casasola

Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, College of Human Ecology

Klarman Hall
1300B Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
mc272@cornell.edu

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Charles Brainerd

Professor

Klarman Hall
G331C Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
cb299@cornell.edu
607/254-1163

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Adam Anderson

Professor

Klarman Hall
162 Human Ecology Building
aka47@cornell.edu

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Tamar Kushnir

Professor

Klarman Hall

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B.A. in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude Barnard College, Columbia University

M.A. in Statistics University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology University of California, Berkeley
 

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Valerie Reyna

Lois and Melvin Tukman Professor

Klarman Hall
G331D Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
vr53@cornell.edu
607/255-6778

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Robert Sternberg

Professor

Publications

 2023 Publications

Desmet, O., & Sternberg, R. J. (2023, December 21).  Those who gift only themselves: An analysis of gifted narcissists as ultimate self-transactionalists. Roeper Review.  https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2023.2285042

Ellis, B. J., Abrams, L. S., Masten, A. S., Sternberg, R. J., Tottenham, N., & Frankenhuis, W. E. (2023).  The hidden talents model: Implications for science, policy, and practice. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fernández-Rodríguez, M. I., & Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  The search for meaning in the life of the gifted. Gifted Education International. https://doi.org/10.1177/02614294231189923

Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Dinić, B. M., Pisanski, K., Gjoneska, B., Frederick, D. A., Pfuhl, G., Milfont, T. L., Bode, A., Aguilar, L., García, F. E., Abad-Villaverde, B., Kavčič, T., Miroshnik, K. G., Ndukaihe, I. L. G., Šafárová, K., Valentova, J. V., Aavik, T., Blackburn, A. M., Çetinkaya, H., Duyar, I., Guemaz, F.,…, & Sternberg, R. J. (2023, October 26). Validation of the short version (TLS-15) of the Triangular Love Scale (TLS-45) across 37 languages.  Archives of Sexual Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02702-7

Sorokowski, P., Kowal, M., Sternberg, R. J., Aavik, T., Akello, G., Alhababah, M. M., & … Sorokowska, A. (2023, January 14). Modernization, collectivism, and gender equality predict love experiences in 45 countries. Scientific Reports, 13(1):773. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26663-4

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  A balance theory analysis of xenosophia.  Possibility Studies and Society.  https://doi.org/10.1177/2753869923121491

Sternberg, R. J. (2023). Cultural creativity: A componential model.  In D. D. Preiss, M. Singer, & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Innovation, culture, and change across cultures (pp. 363-387).  Springer.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023, October 11).  Eight lessons from my research on creativity.  Greater Good Magazine, https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/eight_lessons_from_my_research_on_creativity

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Evolving implicit metaphors for understanding giftedness: From banks to foundations.  Roeper Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2023.2212617

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Foreword: The many worlds of college admissions.  In K. Geisinger (Ed.), College admissions and college admissions testing in a time of transformational change (pp. ix-xix).  New York: Routledge.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Giftedness does not reside within a person: Defining giftedness in society is a three-step process.  Roeper Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2022.2145400

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Individual, collective, and contextual aspects in the identification of giftedness.  Gifted Education International, 40(1), 3-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/02614294231156986.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Intelligence.  In Oxford research encyclopedias: Education: Education, cultures, and ethnicities, research and assessment methods. (Update to 2019 Encyclopedia article.) https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.872

Sternberg, R. J. (2023). Intelligence is not the “entire repertoire of knowledge,” but rather the repertoire of adaptive knowledge: Commentary on Ackerman (2023). American Psychologist, 78(3), 301–302. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001082

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Intelligences.  In G. R. Goethals, S. T. Allison, & G. J. Sorenson (Eds.), Sage encyclopedia of leadership studies.  Sage.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Introduction:  Intelligence, creativity, and wisdom: A brief intellectual history of the theory and research on their interrelationships.  In R. J. Sternberg, J. C. Kaufman, & S. Karami (Eds.), Intelligence, creativity, and wisdom: Exploring their connections and distinctions (pp. 1-20). Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023, March 24). Review of Measuring researchers’ success more fairly: going beyond the H-index.  Qeios ID: 8BKDMT. https://doi.org/10.32388/8BKDMT

Sternberg, R. J. (2023, December 21).  The topic that is not to be discussed: The meaning and deployment of giftedness in the dominion of Lord Voldemort.  Roeper Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2023.2285046

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Toxic giftedness.  Roeper Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2022.2148311

Sternberg, R. J. (2023) Transformationelle Begabung: Wer besitzt sie und wer besitzt sie nicht? In C. Fischer, C. Fischer-Ontrup, F. Käpnick, N. Neuber, & C. (Eds.),  Potenziale erkennen – Talente entwickeln – Bildung nachhaltig gestalten.  (pp 285 – 301). Münster: Waxmann. https://www.waxmann.com/index.php?eID=download&buchnr=4667

Sternberg, R. J. (2023). Unwrapping gifts: Understanding the inner workings of giftedness through a panoply of paradigms in the field of psychology. Roeper Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2023.2172754

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  What is wisdom?  Sketch of a TOP (tree of philosophy) theory. Review of General Psychology, Review of General Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680231215433.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  What matters is the deployment, not the possession of gifts: A tribute to Marcia Gentry.  Roeper Review, 45(4), 243-251.

Sternberg, R. J. (2023).  Why test-optional and other test-light options have worked so well in college admissions. College and University, 98(3), 37-44.

Sternberg, R. J., & Desmet, O. (2023).  Giftedness in childhood.  New York: Cambridge University Press. 

Sternberg R. J., Co, C., Siriner, I., Soleimani Dashtaki, A., & Wong, C.-H. (2023).  Cultural intelligence deployed in one’s own vs. in a different culture: The same or different? Journal of Intelligence, 11, 212. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11110212.

Sternberg, R. J., Ghahremani, M., & Ehsan, H. (2023).  Combating myside bias in scientific thinking: A special challenge for the gifted. Roeper Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/02783193.2023.2212361

Sternberg, R. J., & Karami, S. (2023).  Intelligence, creativity, wisdom: A 6P Analysis. In R. J. Sternberg, J. C. Kaufman, & S. Karami (Eds.), Intelligence, creativity, and wisdom: Exploring their connections and distinctions (pp. 339-366).  Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sternberg, R. J., & Karami, S. (2023).  Technology: Does it help or harm intelligence—or both? In S. Mukherjee, V. Dutt, & N. Srinivasan (Eds.), Applied cognitive science and technology: Implications of interactions between human cognition and technology (pp. 251-259). Singapore: Springer Nature.

Sternberg, R. J., Kaufman, J. C., & Karami, S. (Eds.) (2023). Intelligence, creativity, and wisdom: Exploring their connections and distinctions. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Sternberg, R. J., Preiss, D. D., & Karami, S. (2023).  An historical causal-chain theory of conceptions of intelligence.  Review of General Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680231158790

Sternberg, R. J., & Reis, S. M. (2023).  In remembrance of Marcia Gentry: Major themes emerging in a special issue in her honor. Roeper Review, 45(4), 268-271.

Sternberg, R. J., & Reis, S. M. (2023).  Introduction to the special issue in honor of Marcia Gentry.  Roeper Review, 45(4), 215.

Sternberg, R. J., & Rodriguez-Fernandez, M. I. (2023).  Humanitarian giftedness.  Gifted Education International, 40(1), 92-115. https://doi.org/10.1177/02614294231167749

Sternberg, R. J., Tromp, C., & Karami, S. (2023). Intelligence, creativity, and wisdom are situated in the interaction among person x task x situation.  In R. J. Sternberg, J. C. Kaufman, & S. Karami (Eds.), Intelligence, creativity, and wisdom: Exploring their connections and distinctions (pp. 367-386). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Klarman Hall
MVR G101
rjs487@cornell.edu

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Qi Wang

Joan K. and Irwin M. Jacobs Professor

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(Selected. For a complete list of publications, see Curriculum Vitae)

Wang, Q. (2021). The cultural foundation of human memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 72, 151-179. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-070920-023638

Yang, Y., Wang, L., & Wang, Q. (2021). Take your word or tone for it? European American and Chinese children’s attention to emotional cues in speech. Child Development, 92(3), 844-852. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13576

Swallow, K. M., & Wang, Q. (2020). Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events. Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104450

Wang, Q., & Jeon, H. J. (2020). Bias in Bias Recognition: People View Others but not Themselves as Biased by Preexisting Beliefs and Social Stigmas. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240232. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0240232

Wang, Q., Koh, J. B. K., Santacrose, D., Song, Q., Klemfuss, J. Z., & Doan, S. N. (2019). Child-centered memory conversations facilitate children’s episodic thinking. Cognitive Development, 51, 58-66. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.05.009

Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Koh, J. B. K., Song, Q., & Yang, Y. (2018). Culturally motivated remembering: The moderating role of culture for the relation of episodic memory to well-being. Clinical Psychological Science, 6(6), 860-871. 

Wang, Q., & Song, Q. (2018). He says, she says: Mothers and children remembering the same events. Child Development, 89(6), 2215-2229. 

Wang, Q. (2016). Why should we all be cultural psychologists? Lessons from the study of social cognition. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 5, 583-596.

Wang, Q., & Koh, J. B. K. (2015). How will things be the next time? Self in the construction of future events among school-aged children. Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 131-138. 

Wang, Q., & Peterson, C. (2014). Your earliest memory may be earlier than you think: Prospective studies of children’s dating of earliest childhood memories. Developmental Psychology, 50(6), 1680-6.

Wang, Q. (2013). Gender and emotion in everyday event memory. Memory, 21, 503-511. 

Wang, Q., Hou, Y., Tang, H., & Wiprovnick, A. (2011). Traveling backward and forward in time: Culture and gender in the episodic specificity of past and future events. Memory, 19, 1, 103-109.

Wang, Q., Shao, Y., & Li, Y. J. (2010). “My way or Mom’s way?” The bilingual and bicultural self in Hong Kong Chinese children and adolescents. Child Development, 81, 2, 555-567. 

Wang, Q. (2009). Are Asians forgetful? Perception, retention, and recall in episodic remembering. Cognition, 111, 123-131 

Wang, Q. (2008). Emotion knowledge and autobiographical memory across the preschool years: A cross-cultural longitudinal investigation. Cognition, 108, 117-135.

Wang, Q. (2008). Being American, being Asian: The bicultural self and autobiographical memory in Asian Americans. Cognition, 107, 743-751.

Klarman Hall
G231 MVR
qiwang@cornell.edu
607/255-9376

Education

  • Ph.D. 2000 - Harvard University
  • M.A. 1998 - Harvard University 
  • B.Sc. 1989 - Peking University, China

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