Children's Gender Stereotypes in STEM Following a One-Shot Growth Mindset Intervention in a Science Museum.

STEM gender stereotypes growth mindset intervention implicit theories informal science learning

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 14 12 2020
accepted: 12 04 2021
entrez: 27 5 2021
pubmed: 28 5 2021
medline: 28 5 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Women are drastically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and this underrepresentation has been linked to gender stereotypes and ability related beliefs. One way to remedy this may be to challenge male bias gender stereotypes around STEM by cultivating equitable beliefs that both female and male can excel in STEM. The present study implemented a growth mindset intervention to promote children's incremental ability beliefs and investigate the relation between the intervention and children's gender stereotypes in an informal science learning site. Participants (

Identifiants

pubmed: 34040559
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641695
pmc: PMC8141795
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

641695

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Law, McGuire, Winterbottom and Rutland.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Fidelia Law (F)

Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.

Luke McGuire (L)

Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.

Mark Winterbottom (M)

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Adam Rutland (A)

Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.

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