MA Fuesting, AB Diekman - Personality and Social …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com

Not by success alone: Role models provide pathways to communal opportunities in STEM.

Broadening participation in STEM

Diekman, Fuesting

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Excerpt

Because of stereotypes that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields do not fulfill communal goals, communally oriented individuals may select out of STEM. One potential route to engaging and promoting communally oriented individuals in STEM fields is through interactions with advisors or role models in STEM. We first demonstrate the perceived difficulty of finding role models who enact communal behaviors in STEM relative to other fields (Preliminary Study). Communally oriented students reported …

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