A question of belonging: race, social fit, and achievement.
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Summary
Two experiments tested how belonging uncertainty undermines the motivation and achievement of people whose group is negatively characterized in academic settings, and an intervention that mitigated doubts about social belonging in college raised the academic achievement of Black students but not of White students.
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- article
- Published
- 2007-01-01
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- 2,134
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- 84
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Keywords
Psychology, Social psychology, Academic achievement, White (mutation), Race (biology)
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