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The Role of Altruistic Values in Motivating Underrepresented Minority Students for Biomedicine.

Bioscience

Thoman DB, Brown ER, Mason AZ, Harmsen AG, Smith JL.
PMID: 26834259
Bioscience. 2015 Feb 01;65(2):183-188. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu199.

Understanding how cultural values influence undergraduate students' science research experiences and career interest is important in efforts to broaden participation and to diversify the biomedical research workforce. The results from our prospective longitudinal study demonstrated that underrepresented minority student...

Beyond Performance: A Motivational Experiences Model of Stereotype Threat.

Educational psychology review

Thoman DB, Smith JL, Brown ER, Chase J, Lee JY.
PMID: 23894223
Educ Psychol Rev. 2013 Jun 01;25(2):211-243. doi: 10.1007/s10648-013-9219-1.

The contributing role of stereotype threat (ST) to learning and performance decrements for stigmatized students in highly evaluative situations has been vastly documented and is now widely known by educators and policy makers. However, recent research illustrates that underrepresented...

Closing the Communal Gap: The Importance of Communal Affordances in Science Career Motivation.

Journal of applied social psychology

Brown ER, Thoman DB, Smith JL, Diekman AB.
PMID: 26806983
J Appl Soc Psychol. 2015 Dec;45(12):662-673. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12327. Epub 2015 Jun 01.

To remain competitive in the global economy, the United States (and other countries) is trying to broaden participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by graduating an additional 1 million people in STEM fields by 2018. Although communion...

To Grab and To Hold: Cultivating communal goals to overcome cultural and structural barriers in first generation college students' science interest.

Translational issues in psychological science

Allen JM, Muragishi GA, Smith JL, Thoman DB, Brown ER.
PMID: 26807431
Transl Issues Psychol Sci. 2015 Dec;1(4):331-341. doi: 10.1037/tps0000046.

Homogeneity within science limits creativity and discovery, and can feed into a perpetuating cycle of underrepresentation. From enhancing social justice to alleviating health and economic disadvantages, broadening participation in science is imperative. We focus here on first-generation students (FGS)...

Fluctuating Team Science: Perceiving Science as Collaborative Improves Science Motivation.

Motivation science

Allen J, Smith JL, Thoman DB, Walters RW.
PMID: 30534581
Motiv Sci. 2018 Dec;4(4):347-361. doi: 10.1037/mot0000099. Epub 2018 Mar 12.

No abstract available.

Interest Matters: The Importance of Promoting Interest in Education.

Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences

Harackiewicz JM, Smith JL, Priniski SJ.
PMID: 29520371
Policy Insights Behav Brain Sci. 2016 Oct;3(2):220-227. doi: 10.1177/2372732216655542. Epub 2016 Jun 30.

Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological state of attention and affect toward a particular object or topic, and an enduring...

From Bench to Bedside: A communal utility value intervention to enhance students' biomedical science motivation.

Journal of educational psychology

Brown ER, Smith JL, Thoman DB, Allen JM, Muragishi G.
PMID: 26617417
J Educ Psychol. 2015 Nov 01;107(4):1116-1135. doi: 10.1037/edu0000033. Epub 2015 Apr 20.

Motivating students to pursue science careers is a top priority among many science educators. We add to the growing literature by examining the impact of a utility value intervention to enhance student's perceptions that biomedical science affords important utility...

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