Jessica Glazier

Assistant Professor, Psychology

Jessica Glazier is a social and developmental psychologist whose research challenges norms and common assumptions that people hold about social categories (e.g., gender, race, sexual orientation, etc.), such as the assumption that gender is binary, that racial categories are discrete, or that everyone experiences sexual attraction. Glazier’s work borrows from the methods and theories of social, developmental, and cognitive psychology as well as feminist and LGBT studies to explore the implications of these and other assumptions and to characterize the experiences of people who defy assumptions about social categories (e.g., transgender people, multiracial people, asexual people, etc.). The goal of Glazier’s work is to expand our understanding social cognition in youth and adults by being inclusive of both perceptions of and the perspectives of people often left out of research and to use this knowledge to target specific timely social issues experienced by these groups. Glazier was a postdoctoral research associate at Northeastern University and earned a master’s and doctorate in psychological science from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s from Albion College.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Washington, 2022
  • M.S. in Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Washington, 2019
  • B.A. in Psychology & Music, Albion College, 2015

Scholarly and creative works

  • Presentations

    Increasing inclusivity within SPSP and Science

    The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    Denver, CO
    February
    2025
    E. Ummak, A. Marei, J. Barrientos, J. Anderson, Y. Otchere, T. Hässler, L. Aspinwal
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children

    Infant and Child Development
    2024
    Vol. 33
    Issue #3
    May Halim, Jessica J Glazier, M Anais Martinez, Adam Stanaland, Sarah E Gaither, Yarrow Dunham, Kristin Pauker, Kristina R Olson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Conducting research within the acronym: Problematizing LGBTIQ+ research in psychology

    Journal of Social Issues
    2024
    Amanda Klysing, Marta Prandelli, Miguel Rosell’o-Pe~naloza, Daniel Alonso, Madison Gray, Jessica J Glazier, Sarah Swanson, Yu-Chi Wang
  • Presentations

    “But aren’t they too young to know they are transgender?”: Education about gender development as an avenue to increase support for transgender rights

    The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
    Philadelphia, PA, USA
    June
    2024
    Jessica J. Glazier, Analía Albuja
  • Presentations

    Multiracial identity fluidity and trust for multiracial people

    The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
    Philadelphia, PA, USA
    June
    2024
    Jessica J. Glazier, Analía Albuja
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Null regions: a unified conceptual framework for statistical inference

    Royal Society Open Science
    2023
    Vol. 10
    Issue #11
    Adam H Smiley, Jessica J Glazier, Yuichi Shoda
  • Presentations

    Categorization and gender identity: Knowing someone is transgender influences social categorization

    LGBTQI+ Studies preconference at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology
    Kraków, Poland
    June
    2023
    Jessica J. Glazier, Jon B. Freeman, Kristina R. Olson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Consistency of gender identity and preferences across time: An exploration among cisgender and transgender children.

    Developmental psychology
    2022
    Vol. 58
    Issue #11
    Tabea H"assler, Jessica J Glazier, Kristina R Olson
  • Presentations

    A more meaningful statistical inference using Minimum-Effect Testing & Equivalence Testing

    Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    February
    2022
    Adam H. Smiley, Jessica J. Glazier, Yuichi Shoda
  • Presentations

    Categorization and gender identity: Knowing someone is transgender influences social categorization

    The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    February
    2022
    Jessica J. Glazier, Jon B. Freeman, Kristina R. Olson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Evaluation of anxiety and depression in a community sample of transgender youth

    JAMA network open
    2021
    Vol. 4
    Issue #4
    Dominic J Gibson, Jessica J Glazier, Kristina R Olson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    The association between prejudice toward and essentialist beliefs about transgender people

    Collabra: Psychology
    2021
    Vol. 7
    Issue #1
    Jessica J Glazier, Eric M Gomez, Kristina R Olson
  • Presentations

    Minimum-Effect Significance Testing (MEST) and Equivalence Testing: A Unified Framework and a Hands-On Tutorial.

    The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
    June
    2021
    Adam H. Smiley, Jessica J. Glazier, Yuichi Shoda
  • Presentations

    Does identity impact essentialism? Gender essentialism in transgender, cisgender, and multiracial children

    The Society for Research in Child Development
    April
    2021
    Jessica J. Glazier, Elizabeth J. Abel, Elizabeth A. Enright, Selin Gülgöz, Susan A. Gelman, Kristina R. Olson
  • Presentations

    Do people implicitly perceive Black women as less likely to be sexually harassed than White women?

    The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    February
    2021
    Jessica J. Glazier, Cheryl Kaiser
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Gender encoding in gender diverse and gender conforming children

    Child development
    2020
    Vol. 91
    Issue #6
    Jessica J Glazier, Selin G"ulg"oz, Kristina R Olson
  • Presentations

    How is gender categorization influenced by the knowledge that someone is transgender?

    The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    New Orleans, LA, USA
    February
    2020
    Jessica J. Glazier, Jon B. Freeman, Kristina R. Olson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    2019
    Vol. 116
    Issue #49
    Selin G"ulg"oz, Jessica J Glazier, Elizabeth A Enright, Daniel J Alonso, Lily J Durwood, Anne A Fast, Riley Lowe, Chonghui Ji, Jeffrey Heer, Carol Lynn Martin, others
  • Presentations

    The automatic encoding of gender in transgender and cisgender children

    The Society for Research in Child Development
    Baltimore, MD, USA
    March
    2019
    Jessica J. Glazier, Selin Gülgöz, Kristina R. Olson
  • Presentations

    Relations between parent reports and children’s reports of gender typing

    The Society for Research in Child Development
    Baltimore, MD, USA
    March
    2019
    Jessica J. Glazier, Selin Gülgöz, Kristina R. Olson
  • Presentations

    Automatic encoding of gender in transgender and cisgender children

    The Society for Personality and Social Psychology
    Portland, OR, USA
    February
    2019
    Jessica J. Glazier, Selin Gülgöz, Kristina R. Olson
  • Presentations

    Coherence in gender cognition

    The Cognitive Development Society
    Louisville, KY, USA
    October
    2019
    Jessica J. Glazier, Selin Gülgöz, Kristina R. Olson
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    Attitudes toward and beliefs about transgender youth: A cross-cultural comparison between the United States and India

    Sex roles
    2018
    Vol. 78
    Holger B Elischberger, Jessica J Glazier, Eric D Hill, Lynn Verduzco-Baker
  • Article in Refereed Journal

    “Boys don’t cry”—Or do they? Adult attitudes toward and beliefs about transgender youth

    Sex Roles
    2016
    Vol. 75
    Holger B Elischberger, Jessica J Glazier, Eric D Hill, Lynn Verduzco-Baker
  • Presentations

    Boys don’t cry: Adult perceptions of children who defy gender rolesan international comparison

    The Association for Psychological Science
    New York, NY, USA
    May
    2015
    Jessica J. Glazier, Holger B. Elischberger, Eric D. Hill, Lynn Verduzco-Baker