Toni Schmader

Toni Schmader is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in social psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Education
Schmader earned a PhD in social psychology in 1999 from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Previously she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude Washington and Jefferson College.

Career
Schmader was named a Canada Research Chair in social psychology in 2010, receiving funding to "research the interplay between negative stereotypes, self-esteem, emotion, motivation and performance." Among her findings were that "women inhibit their own performance", getting higher scores on tests done under a fictitious name; and that girls are more likely to grow up believing that they can work outside the home if their fathers perform traditionally female domestic chores inside the home.

Publications

 * K Block, WM Hall, T Schmader, M Inness, E Croft. Social Psychology, 2018. 'Should I Stay or Should I Go?'
 * JP Jamieson, WB Mendes, E Blackstock, T Schmader. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2010. 'Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE.'
 * M Johns, M Inzlicht, T Schmader. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2008. 'Stereotype threat and executive resource depletion: Examining the influence of emotion regulation.'
 * T Schmader, M Johns. Journal of personality and social psychology, 2003. 'Converging evidence that stereotype threat reduces working memory capacity.'