ArticlePsychological science2019
Subtle Linguistic Cues Increase Girls' Engagement in Science.
Article in Psychological science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Asking young children to "do science" instead of "be scientists" increases science engagement in a randomized field experiment.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Trial
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- Gender stereotypes regarding power and niceness in Japanese children.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- How children's media and teachers communicate exclusive and essentialist views of science and scientists.Developmental psychology · 2022Article
- Memory for syntactic differences in mental illness descriptions.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
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- Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2020Article
- Math Is for Me: A Field Intervention to Strengthen Math Self-Concepts in Spanish-Speaking 3rd Grade Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Children lose confidence in their potential to "be scientists," but not in their capacity to "do science".Developmental science · 2019Review
- Gender in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: Issues, Causes, Solutions.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Review
- Normative Social Role Concepts in Early Childhood.Cognitive science · 2019Article
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Abstract
The roots of gender disparities in science achievement take hold in early childhood. The present studies aimed to identify a modifiable feature of young children's environments that could be targeted to reduce gender differences in science behavior among young children. Four experimental studies with children ( N = 501) revealed that describing science in terms of actions ("Let's do science! Doing science means exploring the world!") instead of identities ("Let's be scientists! Scientists explore the world!") increased girls' subsequent persistence in new science games designed to illustrate the scientific method. These studies thus identified subtle but powerful linguistic cues that could be targeted to help reduce gender disparities in science engagement in early childhood.
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