Recursive processes in self-affirmation: intervening to close the minority achievement gapGeoffrey L Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Muenzinger Psychology Building, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Science 324:400-3. 2009
..Implications for psychological theory and educational practice are discussed...
Reducing the racial achievement gap: a social-psychological interventionGeoffrey L Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Muenzinger Psychology Building, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Science 313:1307-10. 2006
..These results suggest that the racial achievement gap, a major social concern in the United States, could be ameliorated by the use of timely and targeted social-psychological interventions...
- Chronic threat and contingent belonging: protective benefits of values affirmation on identity development
Jonathan E Cook
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:479-96. 2012
..The role of identity threat and affirmation in affecting the encoding of social experience, and the corresponding importance of timing treatments to developmentally sensitive periods, are explored...
- Affirmed yet unaware: exploring the role of awareness in the process of self-affirmation
David K Sherman
Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 9660, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:745-64. 2009
..Together, these studies suggest not only that affirmation processes can proceed without awareness but also that increased awareness of the affirmation may diminish its impact...
- A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority students
Gregory M Walton
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Science 331:1447-51. 2011
..The results suggest that social belonging is a psychological lever where targeted intervention can have broad consequences that lessen inequalities in achievement and health...
- A question of belonging: race, social fit, and achievement
Gregory M Walton
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:82-96. 2007
..g., college grades) of Black students but not of White students. Implications for theories of achievement motivation and intervention are discussed...
- Mere belonging: the power of social connections
Gregory M Walton
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 102:513-32. 2012
..The results suggest that even minimal cues of social connectedness affect important aspects of self...
- Reducing the gender achievement gap in college science: a classroom study of values affirmation
Akira Miyake
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Science 330:1234-7. 2010
..Benefits were strongest for women who tended to endorse the stereotype that men do better than women in physics. A brief psychological intervention may be a promising way to address the gender gap in science performance and learning...
- Bridging the partisan divide: Self-affirmation reduces ideological closed-mindedness and inflexibility in negotiation
Geoffrey L Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:415-30. 2007
..The theoretical and applied significance of these findings are discussed...
- "I am us": negative stereotypes as collective threats
Geoffrey L Cohen
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 89:566-82. 2005
..Results further suggest that group identification plays a role in whether people use an avoidance or challenge strategy in coping with collective threat. Implications for theories of social identity and stigmatization are discussed...
Susceptibility to peer influence: using a performance-based measure to identify adolescent males at heightened risk for deviant peer socializationMitchell J Prinstein
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychol 47:1167-72. 2011
..Findings support the predictive validity of a performance-based susceptibility measure and suggest that adolescents' peer influence susceptibility may generalize across peer contexts...
- Constructed criteria: redefining merit to justify discrimination
Ericluis Uhlmann
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Psychol Sci 16:474-80. 2005
..Commitment to hiring criteria prior to disclosure of the applicant's gender eliminated discrimination, suggesting that bias in the construction of hiring criteria plays a causal role in discrimination...
- Peer contagion of aggression and health risk behavior among adolescent males: an experimental investigation of effects on public conduct and private attitudes
Geoffrey L Cohen
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 0345, USA
Child Dev 77:967-83. 2006
..The role of status-maintenance motivations in aggression and risk behavior, and implications for preventive intervention, are discussed...
- Stereotype threat and the social and scientific contexts of the race achievement gap
Geoffrey L Cohen
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA
Am Psychol 60:270-1; discussion 271-2. 2005
- Adolescent oral sex, peer popularity, and perceptions of best friends' sexual behavior
Mitchell J Prinstein
Yale University, Department of Psychology, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
J Pediatr Psychol 28:243-9. 2003
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