A5016303583- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Career Development and Diversity
- Higher Education Research Studies
- Mentoring and Academic Development
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Gender Studies in Language
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Law, Rights, and Freedoms
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Consumer Perception and Purchasing Behavior
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
- Higher Education and Employability
- Law in Society and Culture
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2016-2025
University of Massachusetts Boston
2022
New School
2000-2002
Yale University
1999
University of Washington
1998
Three studies tested a stereotype inoculation model, which proposed that contact with same-sex experts (advanced peers, professionals, professors) in academic environments involving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) enhances women's self-concept STEM, attitudes toward motivation to pursue STEM careers. Two cross-sectional controlled experiments 1 longitudinal naturalistic study calculus class revealed exposure female promoted positive implicit stronger identification...
Two experiments examined whether exposure to pictures of admired and disliked exemplars can reduce automatic preference for White over Black Americans younger older people. In Experiment 1, participants were exposed either individuals, or nonracial exemplars. Immediately after exemplar 24 hr later, they completed an Implicit Association Test that assessed racial attitudes 2 explicit attitude measures. Results revealed significantly weakened pro-White beyond the treatment but did not affect...
Significance The scarcity of women in the American science and engineering workforce is a well-recognized problem. However, field-tested interventions outside artificial laboratory settings are few. We provide evidence from multiyear field experiment demonstrating that who were assigned female (but not male) peer mentor experienced more belonging, motivation, confidence engineering, better retention majors, greater career aspirations. Female mentors promoted aspirations to pursue careers by...
Scientific advances fuel American economic competitiveness, quality of life, and national security. Much the future job growth is projected in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM). However, supply domestic students who pursue STEM careers remains small relative to demand. On side, girls women represent untapped human capital that, if leveraged, could enhance workforce, given that they comprise 50% population more than college-bound population. Yet scarcity stark. What drives...
Individuals’ choice to pursue one academic or professional path over another may feel like a free but is often constrained by subtle cues in achievement environments that signal who naturally belongs there and does not. People gravitate toward domains comfortable fit because they are sync with ingroup stereotypes away from other an uncomfortable deviate too far stereotypes. Even individuals high performers lack confidence their ability withdraw certain domains—performance self-efficacy do...
For years, public discourse in science education, technology, and policy-making has focused on the "leaky pipeline" problem: observation that fewer women than men enter science, engineering, mathematics fields more leave. Less attention experimentally testing solutions to this problem. We report an experiment investigating one solution: we created "microenvironments" (small groups) engineering with varying proportions of identify which environment increases motivation participation, whether...
Two experiments provide initial evidence that specific emotional states are capable of creating automatic prejudice toward outgroups. Specifically, we propose anger should influence evaluations outgroups because its functional relevance to intergroup conflict and competition, whereas other negative emotions less relevant relations (e.g., sadness) not. In both experiments, after minimal ingroups were created, participants induced experience anger, sadness, or a neutral state. Automatic...
Three experiments examined the impact of incidental emotions on implicit intergroup evaluations. Experiment 1 demonstrated that for unknown social groups, two negative are broadly applicable to conflict (anger and disgust) both created bias where none had existed before. However, known groups about which perceivers prior knowledge, increased prejudice only if induced emotion was outgroup stereotype. Disgust against disgust-relevant (e.g., homosexuals) but anger did not (Experiment 2);...
Three studies assessed whether a common cultural practice, namely, the use of gender-exclusive language (e.g., using he to indicate or she), is experienced as ostracism at group level by women. Women responded (he) during mock job interview with lower sense belonging, less motivation, and expected identification compared others exposed gender-inclusive (he she) gender-neutral ( one) (Studies 1 2). Moreover, more emotionally disengaged women became over course upon hearing language,...
Two experiments examined the influence of skin color on American Hispanics' and Chileans' attitudes towards their ethnic ingroup toward subgroups within ingroup. When implicit were examined, both Hispanics Chileans expressed strong preference for lighter complexioned subgroup ("Blanco" in Spanish) over darker ("Moreno" Implicit Blancos was evident among self-identified Moreno as well Blanco participants countries, suggesting that desirability light apparently supersedes national boundaries...
Three experiments integrated several theories in psychology and sociology to identify the conditions under which multiculturalism has positive versus negative effects on majority group members' attitudes behavioral intentions toward ethnic minorities. On basis of social cognitive construal theories, we predicted found that construing abstract terms by highlighting its broad goals reduced White Americans' prejudice minorities relative a control condition, whereas concrete specific ways can be...
Three studies tested whether implicit prototypes about who is authentically American predict discriminatory behavior and judgments against Americans of non-European descent. These identified specific contexts in which discrimination more versus less likely to occur, the underlying mechanism driving it, moderators such discrimination. Studies 1 2 demonstrated that participants held beliefs prototypical White, willing they were hire qualified Asian national security jobs; however, this...
Three experiments tested whether and when exposure to counterstereotypic ingroup members enhances women’s implicit leadership self-concept. Participants read about professional women leaders framed as similar versus different from most (Experiment 1) or having the same collegiate background participants 3). Experiment 2 manipulated similarity by giving false feedback participants’ leaders. In all cases, seeing reduced self-stereotyping relative controls but only they were portrayed one’s...
Abstract What impact do advantaged group allies have within social movements? Although solidarity between and disadvantaged members is often encouraged to achieve long‐term change, run the risk of being ineffective or counterproductive, therefore making it important shift our focus towards understanding allies. We propose an integrative theoretical framework describing positive negative based on their distinct identity‐based needs: members’ need for moral acceptance empowerment respect. By...
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Significance Science is rapidly changing with the current movement to improve science focused largely on reproducibility/replicability and open practices. Through network modeling semantic analysis, this article provides an initial exploration of structure, cultural frames collaboration prosociality, representation women in reproducibility literatures. Network analyses reveal that literatures are emerging relatively independently few common papers or authors. Open has a more collaborative...