Publications by authors named "Heidi E Williams"
A promising way to mitigate inequality is by addressing students' worries about belonging. But where and with whom is this social-belonging intervention effective? Here we report a team-science randomized controlled experiment with 26,911 students at 22 diverse institutions. Results showed that the social-belonging intervention, administered online before college (in under 30 minutes), increased the rate at which students completed the first year as full-time students, especially among students in groups that had historically progressed at lower rates.
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- * Using misleading representations of diversity can backfire, as both women and men see this as insincere, reducing interest in the organization and fostering identity threat among women.
- * The study highlights the importance of perceived sincerity in diversity efforts, suggesting that inauthentic strategies may actually worsen the underrepresentation issue rather than improve it.