Claude Steele

Claude Steele is the I. James Quillen Endowed Dean, Emeritus at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, and Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is a social psychologist, which means that he studies the psychology how people act as part of a group, and the ways in which societies affect individual behavior. Steele mainly studies stereotypes and the effects they have on individuals. He works as both a researcher and a professor, mainly advising graduate students and conducting experiments. He published Whistling Vivaldi in 2010. He has taught at several different universities over the course of the last 40 years. He is an African-American man grew up in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, before obtaining degrees from Hiram College and Ohio State University. He previously worked at the University of Michigan, which is where he conducted many of the studies he...