Campbell Leaper

Campbell Leaper is a developmental and social psychologist investigating gender and sexism during development. His research program investigates the social-interactive contexts that create gender divisions in people’s lives from childhood into adulthood—and perpetuate systemic gender inequalities in society. Professor Leaper's research projects address several themes: sexist attitudes in relationships; gender-based discrimination and academic motivation; ethnic-racial identity and gender attitudes; and gender-related variations in communication in family and peer contexts. (Please go to his Research page for more information about past and ongoing projects in the Gender Development Research Lab.)

Professor Leaper is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, a Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, a Member of the Society for Research in Child Development, and a Member of the Society for Research on Adolescence. Also, he is the recipient of the Golden Apple Teaching Award and the Martin Chemers Award for Outstanding Research. Furthermore, Professor Leaper is co-founder of the biennial Gender Development Research Conference.

Professor Leaper advises and collaborates with graduate students in the developmental psychology program. For information on graduate and undergraduate students previously or currently working with Professor Leaper, please go to the links to his Students and Photos pages.

You can make a tax-deductible donation to support Professor Leaper's research and his students at this LINK.

Current or former graduate advisees in bold

Leaper, C., & Gutierrez, B. C. (2024). Sexism and gender-based discrimination [during adolescence]. To appear in M.-K. Lei, E. Neblett, & W. Troop-Gordon (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2nd ed.).
Starr, C. S., & Leaper, C. (2023). That’s not me: (Dis)cordanance between pSTEM stereotypes and self-concepts predicts high school students’ pSTEM identity. Social Psychology of Education.
Starr, C. R., & Leaper, C. (2023). Gender, race, perceived representation, and stereotyped attitudes in relation to undergraduates' pSTEM identity and motivation. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Gutierrez, B. C., & Leaper, C. (2023). Linking ambivalent sexism to violence-against-women attitudes and behaviors: A three-level meta-analytic review. Sexuality & Culture.
Wilson, A. R., & Leaper, C. (2023). Do ethnic-racial identity dimensions moderate the relations of outgroup discrimination and ingroup marginalization to self-esteem in Black and Latinx undergraduates? Race & Social Problems.
Shirefley, T. A., & Leaper, C. (2022). Mothers' and fathers' science-related talk with daughters and sons while reading life and physical science books. Frontiers in Psychology.
Leaper, C. (2022). Origins and consequences of childhood gender segregation: Towards an integrative developmental systems model. In D. P. VanderLaan & W. I. Wong (Eds.), Gender and sexuality development: Contemporary theory and research. New York: Springer.
Gutierrez, B. C., & Leaper, C. (2022). Reconstructing culture: A latent profile analysis of Mexican-heritage young women's cultural practices, gender values, and ethnic identity. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology.
Leaper, C., Gutierrez, B. C., & Farkas, T. (2022). Ambivalent sexism and perceived relationship qualities in young adult heterosexual dating couples. Emerging Adulthood.
Gutierrez, B. C., Halim, M. L. D., & Leaper, C. (2022). Variations in recalled familial messages about gender in relation to emerging adults’ gender, ethnic background, and current gender attitudes. Journal of Family Studies.

Also, see Publications page. Copies of most papers are available on ResearchGate or by request.

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