Kathy Kuipers
Ph.D., Stanford University
kathy.kuipers@umontana.edu
Social Science 311
406-243-4381
Small Groups Lab:
Social Science 310 & 312
Office Hours:
Monday 11:00-1:00,
Tuesday 2:10-4:00, and by appointment
Emphasis:
Social Psychology, Group Processes, Organizational Behavior, Research Methods, and Statistics
Research Projects:
My current research spans areas of trust, identification, status, and race in four on-going projects. I recently completed an experimental project funded by the Office of the V.P. for Research at UM that investigates how trust interacts with status processes to modify an internal status order, focusing on the status disadvantages of gender. Practically, we find that trust from those in positions of authority may be used effectively by women and/or racial and ethnic minorities to overcome the inequality they face in interaction with men or members of the racial and ethnic majority. An extension of this project incorporates race and negative stereotyping into status processes.
With students Sarah Moesser and Camarin Metcalf, we have recently completed data collection on a second experimental project examining over-compensation when identities are threatened. We hypothesize that males will over-compensate more than females when their identities are threatened (and this is supported in previous research) and that rural males will over-compensate more than urban males and rural females will over-compensate more than urban females, under gender threatening conditions. A future project will investigate racial identities and over-compensation.
This past spring of 2008, I also collected data in an online survey of founders and presidents of small, tech organizations head-quartered in Montana. This research is part of a larger project (with Greg Larson from Communication Studies) funded by the Office of the V.P. for Research at UM. The project investigates entrepreneurial identification and asks how those identities overlap with features of Montana identities, particularly to facilitate success for entrepreneurs. We also collected information about networks to identify key concerns of Montana entrepreneurs and how they use business and personal contacts. A future project will focus on scientists and compare important characteritics of identification with entrepreneurs.
With students Brandy Kincheloe and Candace Rodriguez, we are collecting obituary data from a sample of newspapers in Montana to investigate feminine and masculine identities. Using methods of content analysis, we identify proto-typical feminine and masculine features for Montana residents, looking at how features of the ideal woman and the ideal man have changed over time, and at whether they vary throughout the state.
Selected Scholarly Work:
Kuipers, Kathy J. “Economic Disadvantage, Race, and Negative Stereotyping” paper presented at the Annual Group Processes Meeting, Boston, July 2008.
Kuipers, Kathy J. and Jane Sell. 2008. “Sociology.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by William A. Darity. Detroit:Macmillan Reference USA.
Kuipers, Kathy J. and Stuart Hysom. 2007. “Common Problems and Solutions.” Pp. 289-324 in Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences, edited by Murray Webster, Jr. and Jane Sell. Boston:Elsevier.
Kuipers, Kathy J. 2007-2008. “Editor’s Column” Social Psychology: Newsletter of the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association, Issues: Spring 2007, 2008, Summer 2007, Fall 2007, p. 2.
Sobieszczyk, Teresa, Kathy J. Kuipers, and Lindy Williams. “Bargaining for Babies: Negotiating Fertility Planning in the Philippines” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. New York, August 2007.
Kuipers, Kathy J. “Network Coupling and Workplace Perceptions,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 2005.
Ridgeway, Cecilia L., Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Kathy J. Kuipers, and Dawn T. Robinson. 1998. “How Do Status Beliefs Develop? The Role of Resources and Interaction.” American Sociological Review 63:331-50.
Kuipers, Kathy J. “Trust Networks in the Workplace,” paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 1998
Personal Interests:
I enjoy gourmet cooking, fly-fishing, skiing (downhill and cross-country), hiking, little dogs, and Montana.
Current Courses
Soci 382 Social Psychology and Social Structure
TR; 9:40-11:00; HS 207
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Soci 562 Quantitative Methods
TR; 12:40-2:00; SS 258
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