Rate My Professor Courtney von Hippel

Associate Professor Courtney von Hippel serves in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Ohio State University. Her research program in applied social psychology emphasizes testing and extending theoretical models in real-world contexts. Central to her work is stereotype threat and its consequences, particularly for women navigating male-dominated professions, older workers facing age-related biases, and men in female-dominated fields such as child protection. Von Hippel also explores implicit attitudes within challenging populations, like people who inject drugs, at-risk youth, and those with mental health issues, thereby advancing insights into stigma and the practical utility of implicit measures outside controlled experiments.

With over 70 publications from 1995 to 2026, she has secured competitive Australian Research Council funding for projects including "Reducing ageism in healthcare" (ARC Linkage Projects, 2026-2031), "Leveraging lived experience to prevent burnout among healthcare workers" (ARC Linkage Projects, 2024-2027), "Stereotype threat, disengagement, and wellbeing among older employees" (ARC Discovery Projects, 2019-2025), and "The role of implicit identity and implicit beliefs in recovery from mental illness" (ARC Linkage Projects, 2012-2016). Notable publications include the meta-analysis "Stereotype threat at work: a meta-analysis" (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2024), "Age-based stereotype threat in the workplace: a daily diary study of antecedents and mechanisms" (Psychology and Aging, 2024), “A huge, unwieldy barrier to push through on a daily basis”: the effects of stigma on AOD workers and workplaces (International Journal of Drug Policy, 2025), and "How diversity and disadvantage frames shape employee reactions to affirmative action: social identity threat, stereotype threat, and fairness perceptions" (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2026). Additional contributions encompass chapters such as "Stereotype Threat in the Workplace" (2012). Her scholarship significantly influences understandings of workplace prejudice, equity, and psychological resilience among stigmatized groups.