APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Meta-Lay Theories of Scientific Potential Drive Students’ Sense of Belonging in STEM
- Aneeta Rattan
London Business School - Krishna Savani
Nanyang Technological University - Meera Komarraju
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale - Megan Morrison
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale - Carol Boggs
University of South Carolina - Nalini Ambady
Stanford University
Abstract
Four studies found that underrepresented students who think their faculty believe that most students have high scientific aptitude (a universal metatheory) would experience a greater sense of belonging in STEM than underrepresented students who think their faculty believe that not everyone has high scientific aptitude (a nonuniversal metatheory).
Social Cognition
