Faculty
Corinne Moss-Racusin
Professor of Psychology
Office: Billie Tisch Center for Integrated Sciences 370F
Phone: 518-580-8329
Email: cmossrac@skidmore.edu
Visit Corinne's Research website
Education:
- Postdoctoral Associateship, Yale University - Department of Psychology and Center for Scientific Teaching (Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology)
- Ph.D., Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- M.S., Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- B.A., New York University
Courses:
- SSP 100 Bad Science
- SSP 100 Nuclear Fallout
- PS 101 Introduction to Psychological Science
- PS 205 Social Psychology
- PS 251 Diversity and Bias in STEM
- PS 252 Psychology at the Tang
- PS 312 Family Form Stigma
- PS 313 Psychology of Gender
- PS 320 Research Methods 2: Social Psychology
- PS 352 Meeting of the Minds
- HF 372 Honors Forum add-on to Social Psychology
Research interests:
- Gender roles, bias, inequality
- Occupational gender segregation
- Diversity and intervention work
- Stigma targeting those who violate the compulsory nuclear family norm (e.g., people who are non-monogamous, childfree-by-choice, chosen family)
Awards and honors:
- Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Diversity Science Award (2026)
- National Science Foundation Grant, “Positioning Social Psychology for the Tech Boom: Embracing AI and Beyond” (2025-2026)
- Association for Psychological Science, David Myers Lecture on the Science and Craft of Teaching (2023)
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Fellow (2022)
- American Psychological Association, Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2021)
- Smithsonian Institute, Research Grant, “The Impact of Gender Bias on Women’s STEM Outcomes” (2015-2017)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Basic Research/STEM Higher Education Grant, “Testing Interventions to Reduce Science Faculty Members’ Gender Biases” (2013-2016)
Fun facts:
- I am technically face-blind. Like Oliver Sacks, I have prosopagnosia! So if you see me around and I stare blankly, please feel free to say hi and remind me who you are. It's NOT you, it's LITERALLY my brain.
- Ask me about how I successfully conquered my cat phobia using an evidence-based approach (including systematic desensitization, sub-typing, and the use of superordinate goals to reduce intergroup conflict)!