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Using an Egalitarian Social Norms Message to Improve Attitudes toward Diversity in an Academic Context: Examining Intended and Unintended Effects of Source and Recipient Gender
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Gainsburg, Izzy; Sekaquaptewa, Denise – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2020
Social psychologists have leveraged social norms messaging about prejudice to improve social climates. Less research, however, has explored how social identities of message sources and recipients (e.g., gender) influence receptivity to these messages. Testing for the effects of source and recipient social identity on message receptivity is not…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Attitude Change, Gender Differences, Undergraduate Students
Modeling Gender Counter-Stereotypic Group Behavior: A Brief Video Intervention Reduces Participation Gender Gaps on STEM Teams
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Lewis, Neil A., Jr.; Sekaquaptewa, Denise; Meadows, Lorelle A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
In STEM project group teams, men speak for more time (Meadows and Sekaquaptewa, in: Proceedings of ASEE annual conference, 2011) and engage in more active technical participation than women, which can have negative long-term consequences (Cheryan et al. in Psychol Bull 143:1-35, 2017; Lord et al. in IEEE Trans Educ 54(4):610-618, 2011). In the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gender Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Video Technology
Setting an Egalitarian Social Norm in the Classroom: Improving Attitudes towards Diversity among Male Engineering Students
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Bennett, Jill E.; Sekaquaptewa, Denise – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
This study tested the effect of a message describing a social norm of egalitarian attitudes and behaviors in an engineering college on male students' attitudes and behavioral intentions surrounding diversity in engineering. Participants were first-semester university students enrolled in four sections of an introductory engineering course in…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Social Behavior, Engineering Education, Males
The Effects of an Academic Environment Intervention on Science Identification among Women in STEM
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Ramsey, Laura R.; Betz, Diana E.; Sekaquaptewa, Denise – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2013
Academic environments can feel unwelcoming for women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Two studies examined academic environments of female undergraduates majoring in STEM fields at a university in the United States. In Study 1, we compared women in STEM who are in a welcoming environment to those in a traditional STEM…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, STEM Education, Womens Education, Females
Changing Stereotypes, Changing Grades: A Longitudinal Study of Stereotyping during a College Math Course
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Ramsey, Laura R.; Sekaquaptewa, Denise – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2011
Previous research has illuminated an important connection between stereotypes and the performance of those targeted by a stereotype. This body of work suggests that even implicit (i.e., nonconscious and unintended) math-gender stereotyping is related to poor math performance among women. Our longitudinal study sought to measure students'…
Descriptors: Females, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences