Identity, Belonging, and Achievement

By Geoffrey L. Cohen, J. García. 2008

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Subfields: Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Service Robots Rising: How Humanoid Robots Influence Service Experiences and Elicit Compensatory Consumer Responses (2019, background): “…process by which people reinforce their self-integrity and image as effective and able, increases psychological resources for coping with a threat (Cohen and Garcia 2008); consequently, a focal threat becomes less psychologically dire, which leads a person “to acknowledge the threat without…”
Self-Affirmation: Understanding the Effects (2013, background): “…experience threat, such as occurs for minorities who are stereotyped in educational settings (Steele, 1997), they tend to become more vigilant (Cohen & Garcia, 2008; Murphy et al., 2007) about aspects of a situation that could indicate that they are at risk of being judged as a member of a…”
Beyond between-group differences: Considering race, ethnicity, and culture in research on positive youth development programs (2016, background): “…are central processes; subsequently, teens may immediately question whether or not they will fit into a YDP given their ethnic background or related dimensions of social identity (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc.; Cohen & Garcia, 2008; Eccles & Gootman, 2002; Larson, 1994).”
Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures (2018, background): “…motivation, and performance because stigmatized social identity groups such as Black Americans are at a heightened risk of receiving disconfirming messages about whether they fit within aca- demic spaces (Cohen & Garcia, 2008; Cook, PurdieVaughns, Garcia, & Cohen, 2012; Walton & Cohen, 2011).”
Tackling Educational Inequalities with Social Psychology: Identities, Contexts, and Interventions (2020, background): “…of a poorly performing minority that caused those students to feel that they did not belong in school, a consequence of social identity threat (Cohen & Garcia, 2008) that is strongly associated with academic performance (Anderman, 2003; Easterbrook, Harris, & Sherman, 2020a; Roeser, Midgley,…”
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cyber-Victimization and Educational Outcomes for Adolescents (2017, background): “PCV also likely affects students’ sense of belonging (Cohen & Garcia, 2008).”
Personality Change: Implications for Organizational Behavior (2018, background): “…self-affirmation interventions, therapy, and selfactualization efforts enable individuals to develop moreexpansiveviewsof the self, its relationshipswith the environment, and its resources (Cohen & Garcia, 2008; Garcia & Cohen, 2013; Hudson & Fraley, 2015; Wilson, 2011; Yeager &Walton, 2011).”
A Teacher Like Me: A Review of the Effect of Student–Teacher Racial/Ethnic Matching on Teacher Perceptions of Students and Student Academic and Behavioral Outcomes (2019, background): “…for students assigned to a co-racial or co-ethnic teacher is attributable to the ways in which students’ and teachers’ racial and ethnic identities interact within the classroom setting in a way that can stave off marginalization and discrimination and promote achievement (Cowen & Garcia, 2008).”
Stereotypes and the Achievement Gap: Stereotype Threat Prior to Test Taking (2012, background): “Moreover, it has been suggested that even if a situation is perceived as threatening, certain threat appraisals may render the threat manageable Stereotype threat 20 (Cohen & Garcia, 2008, see also implications section below).”
Stereotype Threat in Organizations: Implications for Equity and Performance (2015, background): “In these settings, people who face negative stereotypes may be able to relax their psychological and physiological vigilance and performwithout the impediment of identity threat (Cohen & Garcia 2008, Murphy et al. 2007).”