Stats Atwood

Stats Atwood

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where I work on projects focused on transgender and nonbinary youth health and well-being with the Gender and Sexuality Development Program and PolicyLab. Previously, I completed my PhD in psychology and social policy at Princeton University where I was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and member of the Human Diversity Lab. I value human diversity and strongly believe that increasing representation of diverse individuals begets more comprehensive and innovative science. Thus, I am committed to practicing allyship that empowers diverse individuals at all levels of research.

Interests

  • Gender Diversity
  • Gender-Affirming Care
  • Health Equity
  • Diversity & Inclusion
  • Inequality

Education

  • PhD in Psychology, 2020 - 2025

    Princeton University

  • BA in Psychology, 2012 - 2016

    Oberlin College

  • BM in Violin Performance, 2012 - 2016

    Oberlin Conservatory

Publications

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Mental health during medical transition in a US and Canadian sample of early socially transitioned transgender youth

This study looks at the mental health of a group of medically transitioning transgender adolescents who had made a binary social transition during childhood and who, in general, had not experienced substantial gender-incongruent puberty.
Natalie M. Wittlin, Natalie M. Gallagher, S. Atwood, Kristina R. Olson
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Flexibility in Continuous Judgments of Gender/Sex and Race

Across six preregistered studies (N = 1,292), we investigate how face perception along the dimensions of gender/sex and race can vary based on immediate contextual information as well as personal experience.
S. Atwood(?), Dominic J. Gibson(?), Sofía Briones Ramírez, Kristina R. Olson
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Gender essentialism and benevolent sexism in anti-trans rhetoric

We identify psychological constructs reflected in anti-trans rhetoric and then review existing literature on the consequences and beliefs associated with these constructs. Based upon this review, we argue that the reasoning used to promote anti-trans laws specifically, essentialist beliefs and benevolent sexism—is actually associated with outcomes that are detrimental to the very groups these laws purport to protect.
S. Atwood, Thekla Morgenroth, Kristina R. Olson
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Asian Men and Black Women Hold Weaker Race–Gender Associations: Evidence From the United States and China

This research explores whether race–gender associations in mouse-tracking differed across racial/ethnic groups and between cultures.
Jordan R. Axt, S. Atwood, Thomas Talhelm, Eric Hehman
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Expectancy Effects Threaten the Inferential Validity of Synchrony-Prosociality Research

We propose that the effects of synchrony on prosociality may be explicable as the result of top-down expectations invoked by placebo and experimenter effects.
S. Atwood, Adena Schachner, Samuel A. Mehr
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