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KM Kroeper, MC Murphy - Preparing Students for College and …, 2017 - library.oapen.org

Supporting college and career readiness through social psychological interventions.

Stem career interventions

Kroeper, Murphy

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Supporting College and Career Readiness 143 affects college and career readiness, because it causes people to ruminate on the possibility that one could be disrespected, devalued, or discriminated against—taking up cognitive resources that could otherwise be put toward learning, while stoking anxiety and vigilance that disrupt attention (Schmader, Johns, & Forbes, 2008). Thus, the aim of many social psychological interventions is to alleviate identity threat by offering different, more productive, ways to think about the self and …

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