Published Study

Subtle Linguistic Cues Affect Children’s Motivation

The Impact of Generic Language About Ability on Children’s Achievement Motivation

Turning the knots in your stomach into bows: Reappraising arousal improves performance on the GRE

Two brief interventions to mitigate a “chilly climate” transform women’s experience, relationships, and achievement in engineering

Who is good at this game? Linking an activity to a social category undermines children’s achievement

A difference-education intervention equips first-generation college students to thrive in the face of stressful college situations

Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions Across Academic Disciplines

Improving Adolescents’ Standardized Test Performance: An Intervention to Reduce the Effects of Stereotype Threat

In an experiment that tested how to reduce the anxiety-inducing effects of stereotype threat, seventh grade students were divided into four groups to be mentored by college students. Three groups heard different messages about the malleability of intelligence, how difficulties in seventh grade were normal, or both. A control group was given a message about the harm of drug use. Girls in both experimental conditions did better on standardized math tests.