Michelle Reyna Nario-Redmond
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Michelle Nario-Redmond specializes in stereotyping, prejudice, and disability studies. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1996 with a Ph.D. in social psychology, and her research on disability identity shows that self-conceptualization as a member of the disability community has positive implications for self-advocacy and political participation. Other research demonstrates that simulating disability can backfire, worsening support for disability rights. In 2019, Michelle published "Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice" -- the first book to review the social science literature on disability prejudice and its undoing. Each chapter includes voices from across the disability community and activist pages to promote social change. Her work appears in Basic and Applied Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, Emerging Adulthood, the Journal of Social Issues, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Rehabilitation Psychology, Self and Identity, and Social Cognition. She also contributed chapters to the Handbook of Positive Psychological Interventions, and Disability: Social Psychological Perspectives. Michelle is passionate about research-informed policies for social justice, universal design, and increasing citizen access. A former Ford Fellow, Michelle is a graduate of APA's Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, and the Chair of Hiram College's Diversity Committee. In collaboration with her daughter Ceara, she created a school-based intervention to raise awareness of disability culture as a valued aspect of human diversity.
Primary Interests:
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Intergroup Relations
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Self and Identity
Online Studies:
- Disability Identity Project
- Disability Prejudice Project
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Journal Articles:
- Biernat, M., Ma, J. E., & Nario-Redmond, M. R. (2008). Standards to suspect and diagnose stereotypical traits. Social Cognition, 26 (3), 288-313. doi: 10.1521/soco.2008.26.3.288
- Grahe, J. E., Reifman, A., Herman, A., Walker, M., Oleson, K. C., Nario-Redmond, M.R, & Wiebe, R. P. (2012). Harnessing the undiscovered resource of student research projects. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 605. DOI: 10.1177/1745691612459057
- Lindly, O., Nario-Redmond, M. R., & Noel, J. G. (2014). Creatively re-defining fat: Identification predicts strategic responses to stigma, ingroup attitudes, and well-being. Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, 3(2), 179-195. DOI 10.1090/21604851.2014.865968
- Nario, M. R., & Branscombe, N. R. (1995). Comparison processes in hindsight and causal attribution. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21(12), 1244-1255.DOI: 10.1177/01461672952112001
- Nario-Redmond, M.R. (2010). Cultural stereotypes of disabled and nondisabled men and women: Consensus for global category representations and diagnostic domains. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 471-488. DOI: 10.1348/014466609X468411
- Nario-Redmond, M. R., Biernat, M., Eidelman, S., & Palenske, D. J. (2004). The social and personal identities scale: A measure of the differential importance ascribed to social and personal self-categorizations. Self and Identity, 3, 143-175. DOI:10.1080/13576500342000103
- Nario-Redmond, M. R., & Branscombe, N. R. (1996). It could have been better or it might have been worse: Implications for blame assignment in rape cases. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 18, 347-366. DOI:10.1207/s15324834basp1803_6
- Nario-Redmond, M. R., & Gospodinov, D. N., & Cobb, A. (2017). Crip for a day: The unintended consequences of disability simulations. Rehabilitation Psychology.
- Nario-Redmond, M. R., Kemerling, A., & Silverman, A. (2019). Hostile, benevolent, and ambivalent ableism: Contemporary manifestations. Journal of Social Issues: Special Issue on Ableism, 75(3), 726-756.
- Nario-Redmond, M.R., Noel, J. G, & Fern, E. (2013). Redefining disability, reimagining the self: Disability identification predicts self-esteem and strategic responses to stigma. Self and Identity, 12(5), 468-488. DOI:10.1080/15298868.2012.681118
- Nario-Redmond, M. R. & Oleson, K. C. (2016). Disability group identification, disability-rights advocacy:Contingencies among emerging and other adults. Emerging Adulthood, 4(3), 207-218. DOI: 10.1177/2167696815579830
Other Publications:
- Ball, T. C., & Nario-Redmond, M. R. (2014). Positive social identity interventions: Finding a conduit for well-being in members of stigmatized groups. In Parks, A. C. & Schueller, S. (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of positive psychological interventions. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Bogart, K., & Nario-Redmond, M. R (2019). An exploration of disability self-categorization, identity, and pride. In D. Dunn (Ed.), Disability: Social Psychological Perspectives. Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology Series, Oxford Press.
- Dirth, T., & Nario-Redmond, M. R. (2019). Disability advocacy for a new era: Leveraging social psychology and a sociopolitical approach to change. In D. Dunn (Ed.), Disability: Social Psychological Perspectives. Academy of Rehabilitation Psychology Series, Oxford Press.
- Molloy, E., & Nario-Redmond, M. R. (2007). College faculty perceptions of learning disabled students: Stereotypes, group identity and bias. In M. L. Vance (Ed.), Disabled faculty and staff in a disabling society: Multiple identities in higher education. Huntersville, NC: Association on Higher Education and Disability.
- Nario, M. R. (1994, October). Judging members of stereotyped groups: Are we using different standards? Paper presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Ford Foundation Conference of Fellows, Washington, DC.
- Nario-Redmond, M. R. (2006, October). Students with disabilities in higher education: The social and psychological implications of identifying as a member of the disability community. Paper presented at the meeting of the Oregon Association for Higher Education and Disability, Cannon Beach, OR.
- Nario-Redmond, M. R., & Oleson, K. C. (2011). Simi Linton. In Stange, M. Z., Oyster, C. K., and Golson, J. G (Eds.), The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Courses Taught:
- Experimental Methods and Statistics
- Freak, Gimp, Crazy, Crip
- General Psychology
- Gimpy Geezers: Representations of Disability and Aging
- Personality Psychology
- Psychology and Film
- Senior Seminar
- Social Psychology
- Stereotyping and Prejudice
- The Social Construction of Human Variability
Michelle Reyna Nario-Redmond
Department of Psychology
Hiram College
P.O. Box 67
Hiram, Ohio 44234
United States of America
- Phone: (330)-569-5230
- Skype Name: nariomr@hiram.edu
