About

Stephanie Wright, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology

Georgia Gwinnett College

​Dr. Wright was trained in experimental social psychological theory with additional foci in methodology and developmental psychology. Her work applies models of attribution to judgments of responsibility and intent to intervene in a range of interpersonal and public health environments. In her research lab, she and her students use mixed methods to examine didactic interactions that lead to social inequity in areas related to women and girls including educational access and success, interpersonal violence or sexual assault, legal responses to female victimes, and how the use of gendered language shapes our interpretations of and reactions to one another. Pedagogically, she studies the efficacy of utilizing an intersectional approach to core curricula in her program (e.g., Psychology of Women, Lifespan Development, Social Psychology, and special topics in courses such as Psychology and Law).

Her radical redesign of lifespan courses led to the development of intersectionality-based case studies that are now distributed by SAGE Publishing, Inc. Dr. Wright is currently working on a new interactive digital product using a “pick your own adventure” gaming platform to expose students to ecological systems’ influence on lifespan development. Her goal is to allow students an immersive experience with case study content in a way that addresses class, race, and sex as co-constructed locks and keys to the developing human's progress across the lifespan.

Dr. Wright, currently serving as assistant chair of the department of psychology at Georgia Gwinnett College, is also interested in assisting institutions of all sizes and missions evaluate their approaches to (overcoming barriers to) student success as an indistinguishable component of her scholarship and heavy investment in institutional effectiveness.

She lives in the Greater Atlanta and Greater Athens area(s) of GA with her husband and fellow psychologist Dr. Brian Bramstedt. They have four daughters, one son-in-law, one macaw, two cats, three grand-dogs, and dreams of retirement. Eventually.

Education

Ph.D., Experimental Social Psychology, NCSU
M.S., Experimental Social Psychology, NCSU
B.S., Psychology, High Point University