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I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario and graduate degrees (MA and PhD) from Carleton University in 1996. From then I spent several years in the U.S. at the University of North Dakota and then Westchester University before retuning home to Canada at Laurier in 2002.
The main focus of my research is how women cope with gender discrimination. Currently, I am examining how different forms confronting gender discrimination (e.g., email to media; Twitter; educating the perpetrator) may help or hinder women's psychological well-being (mood, life satisfaction, growth, etc.).
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- Foster, Mindi D. “The relationship between collective action and well-being and its moderators: pervasiveness of discrimination and dimensions of action.” Sex Roles (2014).
- Foster, Mindi D. “Everyday confrontation of discrimination. The well-being costs and benefits of women over time”. International Journal of Psychological Studies (2013).
- Foster, Mindi D. “Perceiving pervasive discrimination over time: Implications for coping”. Psychology of Women. (2009).
- Foster, Mindi D. & Tsarfati E. M. “The motivational quality of shattered assumptions when responding to an acute experience of gender discrimination”. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. (2005).
- Foster, Mindi D. & Dion, Kenneth L. “Dispositional hardiness and women’s well-being relating to gender discrimination: The role of minimization”. Psychology of Women Quarterly (2003).
- Foster, Mindi D. & Matheson, Kimberly. “Double relative deprivation: Combining the personal and political”. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (1995).