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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Excited to present at #SPSP2026 alongside such wonderful researchers and to share our latest work on belonging with collaborators @pedram-zarei.bsky.social, @chrisrozek.bsky.social, and our research teams! Thanks to Joel Le Forestier for organizing this session at @spspnews.bsky.social!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Please share with people who might have research that would be a good fit for this new special issue and call for empirical papers on school belonging!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

‼️❗️❣️ The supplement of this paper is amazing and well worth a read if you are interested in K-12 STEM belonging!!!!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

What an incredible resource and comprehensive paper by this team on the development of STEM belonging, including of gender differences in STEM belonging, across K-12! A critical resource and review on this topic!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

🚨 @drkellyallen.bsky.social's new paper features interviews with 10 belonging scholars on the Integrative Framework of Belonging, offering novel insights that clarify, deepen, and reshape the model! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The revised figure showing the Integrative Framework of Belonging

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Surprised that psychologists are still having the same arguments about whether what happens inside people’s heads matters for choices & success? I am! But fortunately @drmuenks.bsky.social and @carltonfong.bsky.social are here to reiterate the overwhelmingly convincing case that motivation matters!

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Carlton J. Fong @carltonfong.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Co-authored with @drmuenks.bsky.social, our @insidehighered.com piece "Beyond Behaviorism: Why Motivation Matters" is out! We reject behaviorist principles and argue that understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Beyond Behaviorism: Why Student Motivation Matters (opinion)

Understanding the science behind motivation is crucial for supporting student learning, Katie Muenks and Carlton Fong write.

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🛑🛑🛑 and read this free open access paper introducing the Brilliance-Belonging Model, which shows how cultural beliefs about ability lead to inequitable outcomes in education through perceptions of belonging and other downstream psychological mechanisms!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

As @maeganarney.bsky.social advisor, I’m biased, but I completely agree and encourage a vote for Maegan Arney for MotSIG junior co-chair!

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Although this isn’t exactly new news, I wanted to share more about a paper that came out while I was on maternity leave: “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review. 🧵

Article titled “Who Gets to Belong in College? An Empirical Review of How Institutions Can Assess and Expand Opportunities for Belonging on Campus,” published in Educational Psychology Review (2025).

Abstract: Over a dozen rigorous randomized-controlled trials show that recognizing worries about belonging in a new school as normal and as improving with time can help students stay engaged, build relationships, and succeed. Such “social-belonging” interventions can help students take advantage of opportunities available to them to develop their belonging in college—yet what is the institutional role? Drawing on past literature, and reporting novel data from the College Transition Collaborative’s massive trial of the social-belonging intervention (N = 15,143 control-condition students in 374 “local-identity” groups across 22 representative colleges and universities; Walton et al., 2023), we explore who gets to belong in college and what institutional leaders can do to expand these opportunities. First, we find that opportunities for belonging (i.e., “belonging affordances”) vary widely, both across institutions and systematically across groups. Notably, Black, Asian, and first-generation college student groups are each less likely than other groups to have minimally adequate opportunities for belonging. Second, all institutions are serving some student groups well, but all can improve: none provides adequate belonging affordances for all groups. Third, four classes of institutional factors predict belonging affordances at the identity-group level: (1) greater in-group representation, (2) more inclusive cultures, (3) greater opportunities for strong relationships, and (4) greater opportunities for productive learning. We conclude by discussing how institutions can learn for whom they are creating opportunities for belonging and for whom they are not, and how institutions can expand opportunities for belonging for groups that are not yet well served.

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Alex Browman @alexbrowman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I argue that historically, educational and social psychology have largely equated belonging with social connectedness. Social connectedness is, of course, essential for belonging.

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

🚨 One issue in school belonging research is we don't have a good definition for it yet! It is MUCH MORE than just positive relationships. This MUST READ paper puts forth a much needed framework for defining school belonging with important implications for research & practice bsky.app/profile/alex...

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

‼️ If you care about how institutions can support STUDENT BELONGING, make sure to read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...! They surveyed 15k+ students to uncover 4 important factors that promote belonging and found variation in how different groups of students felt belonging across context ‼️

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Katie Kroeper @katiekroe.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Excited to be featured by the Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring chatting about a recent paper with Katherine Emerson, Maithreyi Gopalan, and Greg Walton. We looked at actionable ways institutions can create belonging opportunities for students.

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Profiles in Mentoring: Katie Kroeper on Fostering Belonging through Institutional Change – The Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Interesting in SCHOOL BELONGING?? We hope you can join us tonight at AERA for a mega-session on cutting edge new belonging perspectives and research!

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚨 Important new paper from the Ed Psych Review special issue on belonging. This paper considers how racial/ethnic identity relates to school belonging and how that might depend on whether asset-based pedagogy is being used in classrooms

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Markus Brauer @markusbrauer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New publication alert! 🚨 My former graduate student (Dr. Naomi Isenberg) and I have a new paper in Scientific Reports about how Americans underestimate diversity support and that correcting this boosts inclusion. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diversity and inclusion have greater support than most Americans think

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Chris Rozek @chrisrozek.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Hi! I'm a social psychologist in a Department of Education, and I'm interested in student belonging, emotions, motivation, and interventions. I mostly work with adolescents. See below for an example of my belonging theory work done with awesome collaborators :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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