ER Brown, DB Thoman, JL Smith… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library

Closing the communal gap: The importance of communal affordances in science career motivation.

Stem career programs

Brown, Smith, Thoman

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Excerpt

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 (working with, helping, and caring for others) is a basic human need, STEM careers are often (mis) perceived as being uncommunal. Across three naturalistic studies, we found greater support for the communal affordance hypothesis, that perceiving STEM …

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