Women who have not yet entered science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) fields underestimate how well they will perform in those fields (eg,; Meece, Parsons …

Peer-led team learning (PLTL) research has expanded from its roots in program evaluation
of student success measures in Workshop Chemistry to a spectrum of research questions …

Although current research highlights the importance of prior exposure to entrepreneurial role
models in the decision to start and pursue entrepreneurial careers, the mechanism through …

Role models are often suggested as a way of motivating individuals to set and achieve
ambitious goals, especially for members of stigmatized groups in achievement settings. Yet …

Women are more likely to leave science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
compared to men, in part because they lack similar role models such as peers, teaching …

Using social exchange theory, we propose a three-way interaction of despotic leadership,
leader member exchange (LMX), and perceived organizational politics (POP) to predict …

This paper addresses the effects of role models and self‐efficacy on forming career
intentions, and whether the effects vary by gender and process. Focusing on …

We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations
failure', defined as the failure to aspire to one's own potential. In our framework, rich and the …

Four studies tested the hypothesis that the emotion of benign envy, but not the emotions of
admiration or malicious envy, motivates people to improve themselves. Studies 1 to 3 found …

The empirical evidence devoted to analyze the impact of perceptual factors in explaining the
differences in the entrepreneurial intention of men and women is still limited and not entirely …