MC Jackson, CC Leal, J Zambrano… - Social Psychology of …, 2019 - Springer

Talking about science interests: the importance of social recognition when students talk about their interests in STEM.

Broadening participation in STEM

Zambrano

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Although interest development is often conceptualized as a process that occurs within an individual, interest can be developed through various social mechanisms. Messages that suggest that one is or is not welcome within a context may serve to bolster or attenuate interest in those contexts. In a sample of first semester freshmen undergraduate science students, we tested whether or not talking with close others about one's interests, and receiving social recognition during those conversations, was related to having a greater …

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