Children's memberships in social groups have profound effects on their motivation.
Stereotypes about social groups shape children's beliefs about what is expected for their …

Social identification denotes individuals' psychological bond with their ingroup. It is an
indispensable construct in research on intragroup and intergroup dynamics. Today's …

Women and men play video games in approximately equal numbers. Despite this similarity,
video gaming is still strongly associated with men. A common justification for this stereotype …

There is a need to help more students succeed in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) education, with particular interest in reducing current gender gaps in …

In the Western world, gender has traditionally been viewed as binary and as following
directly from biological sex. This view is slowly changing among both experts and the …

Gender identity reflects people's understanding of themselves in terms of cultural definitions
of female and male. In this article, we identify two traditions of research on gender identity …

A wealth of literature documents that women leaders can face simultaneous and yet
conflictual demands for both agency and communion, due to the incongruence of their …

Social psychologists fighting prejudice and clinical psychologists fighting depression have
long been separated by the social–clinical divide, unaware that they were facing a common …

After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

The self-system consists of three fundamental components: the individual self, the relational
self, and the collective self. All selves are important and meaningful and all are associated …