APS
2024 APS Annual Convention
New Directions in Role Model Research: Broadening the Scope of Who and How Individuals Can Serve As Role Models for Underrepresented Students
This symposium presents exciting new advances in role model research. Two studies demonstrate how traditional role model manipulations can be effectively tailored to support underrepresented students, and two studies demonstrate how, under certain conditions, individuals who are not typically viewed as role models can serve as such for underrepresented students.
Chairs & Discussants
- David MarxChair
San Diego State University - Sarah HerrmannCoChair
Weber State University
Presentations
- A Near Peer Video Storytelling Intervention Improves First-Year Students’ Social Fit in CollegeGiselle Laiduc, Rebecca Covarrubias
- Pretending to be a Role Model Boosts Young Girls’ Persistence in ScienceGrace Huang, Tatiana Rachlin, Reut Shachnai, Tamar Kushnir, Lin Bian
- “Non-Threatening” Male Students Can Serve As Peer Role Models for Female Students in Math Stereotype Threat SituationsDavid Marx, Sei Jin Ko
- The Effect of Unofficial Faculty Biographies on Self-Efficacy and Belonging Among College StudentsSarah Herrmann
