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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 123:889-908
More than ever before, institutions of higher education are seeking to increase the racial and social class diversity of their student bodies. Given these efforts, the present research asks two broad questions. First, how frequently do intergroup int
Autor:
Huisi Li, Yufei Zhong, Jiyin Cao, Emily Sue Corwin, Andrea Dittmann, Lauren Simon, Nicole Stephens, Sarah S M Townsend, Siyu Yu
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Academy of Management Proceedings. 2022
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 119:1112-1131
United States higher education prioritizes independence as the cultural ideal. As a result, first-generation students (neither parent has a four-year degree) often confront an initial cultural mismatch early on in college settings: they endorse relat
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 119:517-539
Previous research has documented that people from working-class contexts have fewer skills linked to academic success than their middle-class counterparts (e.g., worse problem-solving skills). Challenging this idea, we propose that one reason why peo
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Social Psychological and Personality Science. 12:751-759
In the United States, underrepresented racial minority (URM) students continue to face psychological barriers that undermine their achievement and fuel disparities in academic outcomes. In the current research, we tested whether a multicultural ideol
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Current Directions in Psychological Science. 28:67-73
Differences in structural resources and individual skills contribute to social-class disparities in both U.S. gateway institutions of higher education and professional workplaces. People from working-class contexts also experience cultural barriers t
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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 45:1068-1083
A growing body of work suggests that teaching college students a contextual understanding of difference-that students' different experiences in college are the result of participating in different contexts before college-can improve the academic perf
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Motivation and Emotion. 42:321-333
College environments can put lower socioeconomic status (SES) female students at particular risk of withdrawing during challenging academic situations. However, thinking about reaching a successful future identity may encourage these students to take
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116:23871-23873
In “Evidence for the reproduction of social class in brief speech,” Kraus et al. (1) present a series of 5 compelling studies showing that perceivers can detect the social class of speakers at above-chance rates. They further demonstrate that per
Autor:
Sarah S. M. Townsend, Mindy Truong
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Current Opinion in Psychology. 18:93-98
Attaining a college degree has traditionally been assumed to be key to upward social and professional mobility. However, college graduates from working-class backgrounds achieve less career success in professional, white-collar workplaces compared to