A Brief Social-Belonging Intervention Improves Academic and Health Outcomes of Minority Students

By Gregory Walton, Geoffrey L. Cohen. Science, 2011

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Creating Birds of Similar Feathers: Leveraging Similarity to Improve Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Achievement. (2015, background): “…number of previous studies that employ relatively brief, social psychological interventions (Cohen et 10 al., 2006; Hulleman & Harackiewicz, 2009; Sherman et al., 2013; Walton & Cohen, 2011) suggest that certain subgroups of students often benefit disproportionately from the interventions.”
Why are there so few ethnic minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology? Challenges to inclusion and the role of sense of belonging (2020, background): “2018; Walton and Carr 2012; Walton and Cohen 2007; Walton and Cohen 2011).”
The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, methodology): “We extend existing approaches by providing a female role model who (a) normalizes poor performance and feelings of not belonging (e.g., Walton & Cohen, 2007, 2011; Walton et al., 2015; Wilson & Linville, 1982, 1985), (b) directs students to think about time and effort spent on academics as an…”
School Belonging: A Review of the History, Current Trends, and Future Directions (2016, background): “Moreover, the benefits associated with belonging, whether it be to a group, school or community, have also been found to have lasting effects (Walton & Cohen, 2011; Walton, Cohen, Cwir, & Spencer, 2012).”
Stereotypes and the Achievement Gap: Stereotype Threat Prior to Test Taking (2012, background): “Moreover, a self-affirmation intervention was found to yield positive effects not only with respect to academic outcomes, but with respect to happiness and health as well (Walton & Cohen, 2011).”
Using Design Thinking to Improve Psychological Interventions: The Case of the Growth Mindset During the Transition to High School (2016, background): “This is a “saying-is-believing” exercise (E. Aronson, 1999; J. Aronson et al., 2002; Walton & Cohen, 2011; Walton, 2014).”
Student Motivation: Current Theories, Constructs, and Interventions Within an Expectancy-Value Framework (2016, background): “In a series of studies, Greg Walton and Geoffrey Cohen developed an intervention targeting students’ feelings of belonging in the academic environment (Walton & Cohen, 2007 , 2011 ).”
Motivation Interventions in Education (2016, background): “Social belongingness theory has inspired interventions that help students perceive stronger connections between themselves and important others in the learning context (Hausmann, Ye, Schofield, & Woods, 2009) and to reduce feelings of uncertainty about belonging (Walton & Cohen, 2011).”
Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research (2021, background): “It appears that multiple processes must converge for a stable, trait-like sense of belonging to emerge and support well-being and other positive outcomes (Cacioppo et al., 2015; Erzen & Çikrikci, 2018; Mellor et al., 2008; Rico-Uribe et al., 2018; Walton & Cohen, 2011).”
Ingroup Experts and Peers as Social Vaccines Who Inoculate the Self-Concept: The Stereotype Inoculation Model (2011, background): “…likely to succeed and whose success is in doubt (Cheryan, Plaut, Davies, & Steele, 2009; Logel et al., 2009; Settles, 2004; Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999; Steele, James, & Barnett, 2002; Stout, Dasgupta, Hunsinger, & McManus, 2011; von Hippel, Issa, Ma, & Stokes, 2011; Walton & Cohen, 2007, 2011).”
Persistence (2014, background): “Similarly, a brief intervention aimed at changing first-year minority students’ sense of belonging on a college campus increased college success many years later (Walton & Cohen, 2011).”
Negative Stereotypes Cause Christians to Underperform in and Disidentify With Science (2015, background): “…of negative stereotypes on academic performance and interest can be mitigated by affirming personal values (Cook, Purdie-Vaughns, Garcia, & Cohen, 2012), increasing feelings of belongingness (Walton & Cohen, 2011), or exposing individuals to counterstereotypic role models (Marx & Goff, 2005).”