University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2025

“Who’s Better at Math, Boys or Girls?”: Changes in Adolescents’ Math Gender Stereotypes and Their Motivational Beliefs from Early to Late Adolescence

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Educational Sciences (2023). Authors: Christine R. Starr, Yannan Gao, Charlott Rubach, Glona Lee, Nayssan Safavian, Anna-Lena Dicke, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, and Sandra D. Simpkins Abstract: Though adults tend to endorse the stereotype that boys are better than girls in math, children tend to favor their own gender or be gender egalitarian. When do individuals start endorsing …

Undergraduates’ pSTEM Identity and Motivation in Relation to Gender- and Race-based Perceived Representation, Stereotyped Beliefs, and Implicit Associations

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2023) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Campbell Leaper Abstract: Women and underrepresented minoritized (URM) persons remain marginalized in physical science, technology, engineering, and math (pSTEM). Relative to non-URM men, URM women may experience a double disadvantage based on their gender and race whereby they observe few same-gender and few same-race role …

International Perspectives on Lesbian Psychology

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Journal of Lesbian Studies (2023) Authors: Ella Ben Hagai and Christine R. Starr Abstract: Researchers from the Philippines, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Chile, Canada, Brazil, China, and the US shed new light on important questions in lesbian psychology while subverting the hegemonic status of Western scholarship. Articles part of this special issue move away from treating LGBTQ + identity as a …

Immigrant’s Death at the Border: Do They Influence White and Latinx Americans’ Belief in the American Dream?

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Analysis of Social Issues and Public Policy (2024) Authors: Alexa Vega Rivas, Ella Ben Hagai, and Christine Starr Abstract: In this study, we test a clashing narrative approach to conflict, which argues that political conflict is based on opposing narratives that negate one another. We focus on the role of two master narratives central to political …

That’s Not Me: (Dis)concordance Between pSTEM Nerd-genius Stereotypes and Self-concepts Predicts High School Students’ pSTEM Identity

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Social Psychology of Education (2023) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Campbell Leaper Abstract: Nerd-genius stereotypes about people in the physical sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (pSTEM) are barriers to getting many adolescent girls interested in pSTEM. Endorsing these stereotypes may undermine youths’ pSTEM identity especially when they are incongruent with their self-concepts—possibly more likely for girls …

pSTEM Implicit Stereotypes and pSTEM Motivation Among Black and Latina Undergraduate Women: The Role of Gender and Ethnic/Racial Typicality

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Sex Roles (2024) Authors: Christine R. Starr and Alan Meca Abstract: Implicitly stereotyping pSTEM (physical sciences, technology, engineering, and math) with Asian and White men can demotivate Black and Latina women in pSTEM. However, theory suggests that stereotypes might not affect all members of a group in the same way. In a sample of 345 undergraduate …

Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation

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Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2023). Authors: Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Naomi Mine, and Kurt Luther Abstract: In recent years, social media companies have grappled with defining and enforcing content moderation policies surrounding political content on their platforms, due in part to concerns about political bias, disinformation, and polarization. These …

A Turn to Assets in Community-Based Computing Research: Tradeoffs, Deficits, and Neoliberalism in Technological Development

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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (2024) Authors: Jean Hardy and Jacob Thebault-Spieker Abstract: CSCW and HCI scholars are increasingly adopting asset-based approaches to community-based social computing research. Emerging from asset-based community development (ABCD), an approach to community and economic development research and practice that emerged in the 1990s, advocates for asset-based approaches argue that …

Toward Equitable Payment for Inclusive Participation

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Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (2023) Authors: Justin X. Moore, LaKesha N. Anderson, Cynthia Li, Reginald D. Benson Jr., Alejandra Garcia Rychtarikova, Lillie D. Williamson, Leslie E. Wolf, Ebony B. Whisenant, Erin Roark, Samantha R. Jones, and Christy J.W. Ledford

How Attributes of Place Threaten Community Trust in the American South: Opportunities for Improving Pandemic-Related Communication

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Journal of Health Communication (2023) Authors: Lauren A. Cafferty, Lillie D. Williamson, LaKesha N. Anderson, Samantha R. Jones, Justin X. Moore, Reginald D. Benson Jr, Ebony B. Whisenant, Candace Clinton, Nikeshia Lashaundra Lawson, and Christy J.W. Ledford Abstract: Trust and mistrust influence the utilization of health services, the quality of overall healthcare, and the prevalence …