Curriculum Vitae

(a full cv is available by request)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4177-2395

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/nicole.else-quest.1/bibliography/public/

• Ph.D. (2006) Psychology; University of Wisconsin – Madison
• M.S. (2002) Psychology; University of Wisconsin – Madison
• B.A. (1999) Psychology; University of Wisconsin – Madison
• A.A. (1997) Liberal Arts & Sciences; University of Wisconsin, Waukesha County

Professional Positions

• Professor, Department of Education, University of California, Los Angeles (2024-present)
• Professor, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2024)
• Associate Chair, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2023)
• Guest Researcher, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Freiburg, Germany (July 2022)
• Associate Professor, Department of Women’s & Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019-2024)
• Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019-present)
• Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2015-2019)
• Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2015-2019)
• Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2013-2018)
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2012-2015)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2011-2015)
• Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Villanova University (2006-2011)
• Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2005)
• Lecturer, Women’s Studies Program, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2004)

Funding

• National Science Foundation, Division of Graduate Education, EHR Core Research Program. “The Organizational Climate Challenge: Promoting the Retention of Students from Underrepresented Groups in Doctoral Engineering Programs.” Collaborative Project, Principal Investigator, 2022-2026.
• National Science Foundation, Division of Research on Learning, EHR Core Research Program. “Investigating Gender Differences in Digital Learning Games with Educational Data Mining.” Collaborative Project, Principal Investigator, 2022-2025.
• National Science Foundation, Division of Research on Learning, EHR Core Research Program. “The Effectiveness of Instructional Technologies in STEM Learning: A Meta-Analysis for Evidence-Based Practices.” Co-Principal Investigator, 2017-2020
• National Science Foundation, Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering program, grant #DRL-0910108, “Gender-Ethnic Identification and the Development of STEM Achievement Behaviors,” Principal Investigator, 2009-2013.

Publications

Books

• Else-Quest, N. M. (forthcoming). The Psychology of Women & Gender: Half the Human Experience + (11th Edition). SAGE.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2022). The Psychology of Women & Gender: Half the Human Experience + (10th Edition). SAGE.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S.  (2018).  The Psychology of Women & Gender: Half the Human Experience + (9th Edition).  SAGE.
• Hyde. J. S. , & Else-Quest, N. M. (2013). Half the Human Experience (8th Edition). Wadsworth Cengage.

Selected Articles & Book Chapters

Reprints available upon request

• Ma, R.*, & Else-Quest, N. M. (2024). Destigmatizing borderline personality disorder with social justice and intersectional cultural humility: How researchers can construct and deconstruct stigma. Feminism & Psychology.
• Ni, X.*, Nguyen, H. A., Else-Quest, N. M., Pagano, A., McLaren, B. M. (2024). Investigating racial and ethnic differences in learning with a digital game and tutor for decimal numbers. In: Ferreira Mello, R., Rummel, N., Jivet, I., Pishtari, G., Ruipérez Valiente, J. A. (Eds), Technology Enhanced Learning for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education. EC-TEL 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15159. Springer, Cham.
• Yoon, S. Y., Aldridge, J., Else-Quest, N. M., & Roy, J. (2024). Development of a climate survey for engineering doctoral students from an intersectional approach: First-round validity evidence. Proceedings of the 2024 Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Richey, J. E., Nguyen, H. A.,* Mehvarz, M., Else-Quest, N., Arroyo, I., Baker, R., Stec, H., Hammer, J., & McLaren, B. M. (2024). Understanding gender effects in game-based learning: The role of self-explanation. In A. M. Olney et al. (Eds.), AIED 2024, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 14829, pp. 206-219.
• Harackiewicz, J. M., Hecht, C. A., Asher, M. W.*, Beymer, P. N., Lamont, L. B.*, Wheeler, N. S., Else-Quest, N. M., Priniski, S. J., Smith, J. L., Hyde, J. S., & Thoman, D. B. (2023). A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(6), 1265–1307.
• Else-Quest, N. M. (2023). Introduction to the special issue on intersectionality in Stigma and Health research. Stigma and Health, 8(3), 267–268.
• Else-Quest, N. M., French, A. M.*, & Telfer, N. A.* (2023). The intersectionality imperative: Calling in stigma and health research. Stigma and Health, 8(3), 269-278.
• Nguyen, H.*, Else-Quest, N., Richey, J.E., Hammer, J., Di, S., & McLaren, B.M. (2023). Gender differences in learning game preferences: Results using a multi-dimensional gender framework. In N. Wang, G. Rebolledo-Mendez, N. Matsuda, O. C. Santos, & V. Dimitrova (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 13916 (pp. 553–564). Springer.
• Aldridge, J., Else-Quest, N. M., Yoon, S. Y., & Roy, J. (2023). Engineering doctoral student retention from an organizational climate and intersectional perspective: A targeted literature review of engineering education literature. Proceedings of the 2023 Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Asher, M. W.*, Harackiewicz, J. M., Beymer, P. N., Hecht, C. A., Lamont, L. B., Else-Quest, N. M., Priniski, S. J., Thoman, D. B., Hyde, J. S., & Smith, J. L. (2023). Utility-value intervention promotes persistence and diversity in STEM. Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, 120 (19), e2300463120.
• French, A. M.*, Else-Quest, N. M., Asher, M.*, Thoman, D. B., Smith, J. L., Hyde, J. S., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2023). An intersectional application of expectancy-value theory in an undergraduate chemistry course. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 47 (3), 299-319.
• Telfer, N. A.*, & Else-Quest, N. M. (2022). An intersectional approach to parental ethnic-racial socialization practices and adolescent academic outcomes. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 68 (4), 368-400.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Sathy, V., & Hogan, K. (January 18, 2022). How to give our students the grace we all need. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Drever, A., & Else-Quest, N. M. (2022). Financial literacy among children: Supporting the development of financial well-being in adulthood. In B. Cude & G. Nicolini (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Financial Literacy (pp. 18-30). Routledge.
• Sun, S., Else-Quest, N. M., Hodges, L., French, A. M.*, & Dowling, R.,* (2021). The effects of ALEKS on mathematics learning in k-12 and higher education: A meta-analysis. Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 13 (3), 182-196.
• Else-Quest, N. M. & Hyde, J. S. (2020). Intersectionality and quantitative methods in psychology. In S. Crasnow & K. Intemann (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Feminist Philosophy of Science. Routledge.
• Abrams, J. A., Tabaac, A., Jung, S.*, & Else-Quest, N. M. (2020). Considerations for employing intersectionality in qualitative health research. Social Science & Medicine, 258, 113138.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hamilton, V.* (2018). Measurement and analysis of nation-level gender equity in the psychology of women. In C. B. Travis & J. W. White (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Women. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2016d). The authors respond: Continuing the dialectic on intersectionality in psychology. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40, 351-352.  doi:10.1177/0361684316647953
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2016c). Methods for the quantitative analysis of intersectionality in psychology: II. Methods & techniques. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40, 319-336.  doi:10.1177/0361684316647953
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2016b). The authors respond: Intersectionality theory and epistemology.  Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40, 182-183.  doi:10.1177/0361684316641054
• Else-Quest, N. M. & Hyde, J. S.  (2016a).  Methods for the quantitative analysis of intersectionality in psychology: I. Theoretical and epistemological issues. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40, 155-170. doi:10.1177/0361684316629797
• Stump, T.*, Mineo, C. C.*, Cross, N.*, & Else-Quest, N. M.  (2016).  The Measure of Disease-Related Stigma: Construction, validation, and application in three disease contexts.  Stigma and Health, 1, 87-100. doi:10.1037/sah0000012
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Peterca, O.* (2015).  Academic attitudes and achievement in students of urban public single-sex and mixed-sex high schools.  American Educational Research Journal, 52, 693-718.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Morse, E.*  (2015).  Parental ethnic socialization and adolescent ethnic identity among four ethnic groups.  Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21, 54-64.
• Drever, A. I., Odders-White, E., Kalish, C. W., Else-Quest, N. M., Hoagland, E. M., & Nelms, E. N.  (2015).  Foundations of financial well-being: Insights into the role of executive function, financial socialization and experience-based learning in childhood and youth.  Journal of Consumer Affairs, 49, 13-38.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Jackson, T.*  (2014).  Cancer stigma.  In P. Corrigan (Ed.), The Stigma of Disease and Disability: Understanding Causes and Overcoming Injustices.  Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Else-Quest, N. M.  (2014).  Robust but plastic: Gender differences in emotional responses to the sexual debut.  The Journal of Sex Research, 51, 473-476.
• Else-Quest, N. M. (April 9, 2013). Contextualizing the conversation on women and STEM. Huffington Post.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Mineo, C. C.*, & Higgins, A.*  (2013).  Math and science attitudes and achievement at the intersection of gender and ethnicity.  Psychology of Women Quarterly, 37, 293-309.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Higgins A.*, Allison, C.*, & Morton, L. C.* (2012). Gender differences in self-conscious emotional experience: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 138, 947-981.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Grabe, S. (2012). The political is personal: Measurement and application of nation-level indicators of gender equity in psychological research. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 36, 131-144.
• Grabe, S., & Else-Quest, N. M. (2012). The role of transnational feminism in psychology: Complementary visions. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 36, 158-161.
• Else-Quest, N. M. (2012). Gender differences in temperament. In M. Zentner & R. Shiner (Eds.), Handbook of Temperament (pp. 479-496). Guilford.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Clark, R., & Owen, M. T. (2011). Stability in mother-child interactions from infancy through adolescence. Parenting: Science & Practice, 11, 280-287.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., & Linn, M. C. (2010). Cross-national patterns of gender differences in mathematics: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136, 103-127.
• Else-Quest, N. M., LoConte, N. K., Schiller, J. H., & Hyde, J. S. (2009). Perceived stigma, self-blame, and adjustment in lung, breast, and prostate cancer patients. Psychology & Health, 24, 949-964.
• Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2009). The missing discourse of development. Journal of Sex Research, 46, 264-267.
• LoConte, N. K., Else-Quest, N. M., Hammes, L., Eickhoff, J., Hyde, J., & Schiller, J. H. (2008). Assessment of guilt and shame in non-small cell lung cancer patients compared to breast cancer and prostate cancer patients. Clinical Lung Cancer, 9, 171-178.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., & Hejmadi, A. (2008). Mother and child emotions during mathematics homework. Mathematical Thinking and Learning, 10, 5-35.
• Graf-Estes, K., Evans, J. L., & Else-Quest, N. M. (2007). Differences in nonword repetition performance of children with and without Specific Language Impairment: A meta-analysis. Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 50, 177-195.
• Lillard, A. S., & Else-Quest, N. (2006). An evaluation of Montessori education. Science, 313, 1893-1894.
• Schmidt, N. K., Else-Quest, N. M., Hammes, L., Eickhoff, J., Hyde, J., Schiller, J. H. (2006). Evaluation of guilt, shame, and depression in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) relative to breast (BC) and prostate (PC). Journal of Clinical Oncology, 14, 403S.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., Goldsmith, H. H., & Van Hulle, C. (2006). Gender differences in temperament: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 33-72.
• Hyde, J. S., Else-Quest , N. M., Alibali, M.W., Knuth, E., & Romberg, T. (2006). Mathematics in the home: Mother-child interactions doing mathematics. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 25, 136-152.
• Schmidt, N., Else-Quest, N., Eickhoff, J., Hyde, J., & Schiller, J. (2005). Guilt and shame in lung cancer patients. Lung Cancer, 49, S46.
• Rice, J. K. & Else-Quest, N. M. (2005). The mixed messages of motherhood. In J. Worell & C. D. Goodheart (Eds.), Handbook of girls’ and women’s psychological health (pp. 339-349), New York: Oxford.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., & DeLamater, J. D. (2005). Context counts: Long-term sequelae of premarital intercourse or abstinence. Journal of Sex Research, 42, 102-112.
• Hyde, J. S., Else-Quest, N. M., Goldsmith, H. H., & Biesanz, J. C. (2004). Children’s temperament and behavior problems predict employed mothers’ work functioning. Child Development, 75, 580-594.
• Else-Quest, N. M., Hyde, J. S., & Clark, R. (2003). Breastfeeding, bonding, and the mother-infant relationship. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 49, 495-517.

* Graduate Student Co-Author