A5060399349- Career Development and Diversity
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Science Education and Pedagogy
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
California State University, Long Beach
2016-2017
Miami University
2011-2017
The goal congruity perspective posits that 2 distinct social cognitions predict attraction to science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields. First, individuals may particularly value communal goals (e.g., working with helping others), due either chronic individual differences the salience of these in particular contexts. Second, hold beliefs about activities facilitate impede goals, affordance stereotypes. Women's tendency endorse more highly than do men, along consensual...
Abstract Our exploration of communal goal processes in decisions about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers integrates research on pursuit with stereotyping social role occupancy. Social roles encompass expectations resources that can originate from group membership broad categories, such as gender, ethnicity, or nationality, more narrowly focused occupational family roles. review elaborates three ways which intersect processes, particular attention to how goals...
Abstract The goal congruity perspective suggests that students may not enter engineering, in part, because they believe engineering is unlikely to fulfill communal, other‐oriented goals. Increasing beliefs fulfills communal goals can increase interest. We examine how actual and expected experiences science, technology, math (STEM) shape Study 1 demonstrates past STEM predict greater positive attitudes. Using experimental methods, studies 2 3 demonstrate including a service‐learning project...
The United States lags behind many Asian countries in engagement science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). An unexplored factor these country-level differences may be U.S.–Asia gaps perceptions of the goal opportunities provided by STEM. Across four studies, U.S. students perceived fewer communal (working with/helping/relationships with others) STEM than students; this differential perception contributed to interest. Perceptions did not follow from a general orientation...
Abstract The goal congruity framework posits that there are consensual beliefs science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields not perceived to afford valued goals such as working with or helping others relative law medicine. In three studies, we examine whether experiences engaging in the context of STEM would lead fulfills communal goals, turn heightened interest those fields. Study 1, provide evidence direct collaboration, mentorship, volunteering predicted greater allowed...