Tenelle Porter

Dr. Tenelle Porter serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology within Rowan University's College of Science & Mathematics, joining the faculty in Fall 2023 after completing postdoctoral fellowships at UC Davis and the University of Pennsylvania.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Developmental and Psychological Sciences from Stanford University
• M.S. in Evidence-Based Social Intervention from the University of Oxford
• B.A. in Spanish from the University of Kansas

Dr. Porter's research program investigates how individuals respond to intellectual fallibility across educational, health, political, and digital contexts. She employs social-developmental approaches to examine intellectual humility, motivation, learning processes, and bias reduction, with particular focus on adolescence and intervention design. Her experimental work bridges laboratory behavioral studies with large-scale field experiments in authentic settings.

Her publication record demonstrates rapid impact in top-tier journals, with recent work establishing intellectual humility frameworks and testing growth mindset interventions in classroom environments. This trajectory reflects increasing influence in educational and social psychology.

Dr. Porter's scientific recognition includes:

• IES Postdoctoral Fellowship
• John Templeton Foundation Fellowship

As a new faculty member, she is developing her research program with emphasis on grant-funded field experiments. Her work requires interdisciplinary collaboration across education, psychology, and implementation science, creating opportunities for student involvement in meaningful real-world research. Dr. Porter maintains active membership in the American Educational Research Association, Society for Social and Personality Psychology, and American Psychological Association.

Students joining her research group will engage with cutting-edge questions about intellectual humility's role in fostering growth versus defensiveness, utilizing mixed-methods approaches across diverse populations and settings.