Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...

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Introduction-Objective We outline and test three key assumptions of identity-based motivation theory. First, in everyday life, people draw both difficulty-as-importance and difficulty-as-impossibili.....

Classroom-level grading policies are crucial in shaping students’ academic motivation, yet educational psychologists for the most part have not studied their direct impact. Instead, most existing w...

Eddie R. Cole explores the complicated history around protecting scholars at historically Black colleges and universities and the risks of political interference in accreditation.

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One goal of motivation science is to create classroom climates that support students’ success. Workforce demands and retention problems in STEM point to a need for research on how to support the mo...

Using the SITC Inventory, social identity threat is shown to be dynamic, multifaceted, and nearly universal.

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Educational Psychology Review - Sense of belonging is an important motivational belief that represents individuals’ sense of fit within an environment. However, many women report feeling a...

The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...

Adaptively regulating achievement motivation and achievement emotions is critical for students in navigating their academic lives. Traditionally, motivational (MR) and emotional self-regulation (ER...

Twin studies and heritability estimates are used in support of biological determinism and in defense of the global inequality status quo.

Inequality is pervasive, challenging people and organizations. Yet we lack a clear picture of how people navigate inequality in everyday social and or…

Motivated reasoning denotes the phenomenon that individuals are more likely to arrive at conclusions that they want to arrive at. Properly understanding this phenomenon requires at least three things:...

Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

As U.S. campuses grow more diverse, university policy choices determine whether cross-group encounters produce connection or division. Drawing on decades of int...

Many domains in life require people to wait to access better outcomes, such as waiting in line to access prized tickets for a show, waiting to obta...

Scientific Reports - A replication of Triplett’s ‘social facilitation experiment’

The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

Despite extensive efforts to reduce STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) dropout, the United States still faces a shortage of STEM professio...

STEM education research has historically been under-equipped, relying on standardized tests and questionnaires while other fields deploy space telescopes and particle accelerators. What would happen i...