Jessica J. Good, Ph.D.
Samuel E. and Mary West Thatcher Professor and Chair of Psychology
Davidson College
Office: Wall 293
Phone: 704-894-2131
Email: jegood@davidson.edu

I am a Professor of Psychology and currently Chair of the Psychology Department at Davidson College, specializing in Social Psychology. I am also a Core faculty member of the Gender & Sexuality Studies department at Davidson. I teach courses on Introductory Psychology, Social Psychology, Research Design & Statistics, and Advanced Research Methods in Social Psychology. Over the course of my career, my research has investigated perceptions of women who are the targets of benevolent sexism, and factors that increase recognition and confrontation of sexism. I spent several years on an NSF-funded line of research investigating the impact of colorblind and multicultural diversity messages on White and underrepresented racial minority students performance and sense of belonging in math and science classrooms. In recent years I have been collaborating across disciplinary boundaries with a Computer Science lab (Dr. Tabitha Peck) to study psychological phenomena within immersive virtual environments.

I earned my Ph.D. from Rutgers University working primarily with Dr. Diana Sanchez (Stigma, Health, & Close Relationships Lab). My dissertation examined perceptions of female targets of benevolent and hostile sexism in a job interview context, as a function of their gender typicality and whether they accept or reject the sexist treatment.

I also completed my masters thesis at Rutgers, focusing on motivation to engage in gender conforming behavior and its effects on self-esteem and gender identity. The resulting paper was published in Psychology of Women Quarterly and won the Annual Award for Student Psychological Research on Women and Gender, given by the Society for the Psychology of Women and the Association for Women in Psychology.

I earned my B.A. from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA, with a major in Psychology and a minor in Women’s Studies. For my senior thesis, I completed a project on the effects of educational intervention on the acceptance of benevolent sexism, advised by Dr. Julie Woodzicka.

I am originally from Delaware, but currently reside in Davidson, NC with my husband (Steve), daughter (Ryan), and son (Tom), and multiple pets and foster kittens.

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