Abstract The United States has made a significant effort and investment in STEM education,
yet the size and the composition of the STEM workforce continues to fail to meet demand. It …

Participants were 32 former GB athletes from Olympic sports, 16 Super-Elite athletes who
had won multiple medals at major championships, and 16 matched Elite athletes who had …

We summarize and integrate a large body of research showing that agency and communion
constitute two fundamental dimensions of content in social cognition. Agentic content refers …

Drawing on Eccles' expectancy-value model of achievement-related choices, we examined
the personal aptitudes and motivational beliefs at 12th grade that move individuals toward or …

This article describes the study of career aspirations of high-achieving black and Latinx
undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) students and …

I summarize a theoretical model of the social, cultural, and psychological influences on
achievement-related choices and outline how this model can help us understand gendered …

Sczesny, Nater, and Eagly show that agency and communion are essential to understanding
the psychology of gender. Gender stereotypes, in their descriptive and prescriptive forms …

Students' intentions to persevere and their career choices in science, technology,
engineering, and math fields can be impacted by their physics identities. Women are …

Although young women now obtain higher course grades in math than boys and are just as
likely to be enrolled in advanced math courses in high school, females continue to be …

The goals of the current study were to evaluate task significance as a longitudinal predictor
of meaningful work and to test moderators of this relation. A large sample of working adults …