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ArticleBioscience2026

Sending a Message: Tuning into Graduate Student Values Can Benefit STEM Research Labs.

Christal D Sohl, Ivan A Hernandez, Dustin B Thoman, Miguel T Villodas, Jessi L Smith

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Article in Bioscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Christal D SohlDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Diego State University San Diego, California, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8048-0205
Ivan A HernandezDepartment of Psychology and Child Development, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California  United States.
Dustin B ThomanDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States.
Miguel T VillodasDepartment of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States.
Jessi L SmithOffice of Research, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6439-1336

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Abstract

Traditional scientific values are often described as agentic (e.g., independence, competition); however, scientists identifying as racially minoritized and marginalized (RMM) or as women are also often highly motivated by communal values (e.g., collaboration, prosocial behaviors). Although alignment of one's values in one's work facilitates a persistence in motivation, it is not well understood if STEM faculty researchers are aware of the communal values their student researchers often hold. Here we focus on a key engine of the university research enterprise-graduate students-and ask if faculty mentors are cognizant of and make explicit their attunement to the communal values of their graduate student researchers. We found that when describing the values of graduate students, faculty underestimate the communal values that members of RMM groups are more likely to hold. When faculty communicated communal values, this correlated positively with a more diverse research lab and several measures of faculty success.

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equity and inclusiongraduate educationmentoringSTEMvalues

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PMCPMC12771512

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