Jessi L Smith

Biographic Data

ID3773739
NAMEJessi L Smith
GIVEN NAMESJessi L
FAMILY NAMESmith
SIGNATURESMITH J L
AFFILIATIONSMontana State University
ORCID0000-0001-6439-1336
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS194
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX6

  • From mandate to co-create

    Open AccessJessi L Smith, Sylvia Mendez et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2024References: 22

    Purpose Annual performance evaluations of faculty are a routine, yet essential, task in higher education. Creating (or revising) performance criteria presents an opportunity for leaders to work with their teams to co-create evaluation metrics that broaden participation and minimise inequity. The purpose of this study was to support organisational leaders in developing equitable performance criteria. Design/methodology/approach We adopted the “dua…

  • An Intersectional Application of Expectancy-Value Theory in an Undergraduate Chemistry Course

    Open AccessAllison M French, Nicole M Else-Quest et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2023Cited by: 3References: 16

    The underrepresentation of women and Black, Latinx, and Native Americans within the United States scientific workforce is a persistent and multifaceted problem warranting an intersectional approach. Applying intersectionality to the expectancy-value theory of motivation, we examined initial motivation and subsequent achievement among a sample of undergraduate students ( N = 687) enrolled in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S…

  • A prosocial value intervention in gateway STEM courses

    Open AccessJudith M Harackiewicz, Cameron A Hecht et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2023Cited by: 1References: 5

    Many college students, especially first-generation and underrepresented racial/ethnic minority students, desire courses and careers that emphasize helping people and society. Can instructors of introductory science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses promote motivation, performance, and equity in STEM fields by emphasizing the prosocial relevance of course material? We developed, implemented, and evaluated a prosocial utility-value …

  • Department Leaders as Critical Conduits for the Advancement of Gender Equity Programs

    Bryce Edward Hughes, Jessi L Smith et al.ARTICLEJournal of Women and Gender in…2022Cited by: 1References: 15

    Although women have made tremendous strides toward gender equity within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields over the past couple of decades, reaching full equity will require the support of faculty colleagues. Department chairs and heads are crucial as the conduit between administration and faculty, yet they are traditionally an understudied contingent. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 10 STEM departme…

  • Nevertheless, she persisted (in science research)

    Open AccessJill Allen, Elizabeth R Brown et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2021References: 17

  • Diversity fatigue

    Open AccessJessi L Smith, Peter McPartlan et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2021Cited by: 2

    Diversity fatigue in academia is a dampening in people's response to or enthusiasm for efforts that improve the experience of underrepresented people. This state experience is connected to system-justifying beliefs and is related to concerns about the effort required to do diversity interventions. Understanding and measuring this construct has implications for the psychology of intergroup relations, as well as practical implications for campus co…

  • Assimilation Undercuts Authenticity

    Open AccessRose Dormanen, Courtney S Sanders et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2020Cited by: 3References: 10

    We tested whether women’s sense of authenticity can be compromised by the expression of masculine characteristics and whether feelings of authenticity directly or indirectly connect masculine expression to a diminished sense of interest in a science position. In Study 1 ( N = 105), we randomly assigned female undergraduates to present themselves as possessing traditionally high masculine characteristics or possessing non-masculine characteristics…

  • The Role of Prosocial Goal Congruity on Student Motivation in Electrical Engineering

    Open AccessBrock J Lameres, Maxwell Steven Burns et al.ARTICLEIEEE Transactions on Education2019

    Contribution: Prior studies on goal congruity show that students are more motivated to pursue careers that allow them to work with and help others and give back to their community (i.e., careers that afford prosocial value). This paper discovers this same pattern in electrical engineering (EE) and discovers that prosocial affordance beliefs are significantly associated with intensions to persist, while agency beliefs are not. Background: Goal con…

  • Cultural Processes of Ethnoracial Disadvantage among Native American College Students

    Open AccessE A Cech, Jessi L Smith et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2019

    Although indigenous populations have been subjected to some of the worst forms of institutionalized oppression in the United States, little social science research has sought to understand the day-to-day ethnoracial biases that contemporary Native American populations face. Seeking to expand this knowledge, we present a theoretical framework of the cultural processes of ethnoracial disadvantage experienced by Native American students in predomina…

  • Social influences of interest

    Open AccessDustin B Thoman, Garam Lee et al.ARTICLEGroup Processes & Intergroup…2019Cited by: 3References: 23

    Understanding group-based inequalities in education requires attention not only to performance and achievement outcomes, but also to whether and how students sustain motivation for their educational and career paths over long periods of time. The self-regulation of motivation (SRM) model describes how students’ choices to persist are driven by the dynamic interaction between goals-defined motivation, which typically guides choices to start or ree…

  • Missing or seizing the opportunity? The effect of an opportunity hire on job offers to science faculty candidates

    Open AccessJill Allen, Jessi L Smith et al.ARTICLEEqual Opportunities International2019Cited by: 1References: 46

    Purpose As universities grapple with broadening participation of women in science, many ADVANCE funded institutions hone in on transforming search committee practices to better consider dual-career partners and affirmative action hires ("opportunity hires"). To date, there is a lack of empirical research on the consequences and processes underlying such a focus. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how two ADVANCE-recommended hirin…

  • Academically contingent self-worth and vulnerability

    Jason S Lawrence, Jessi L SmithARTICLESelf and Identity2017

    When are people who base their self-worth on academic competence vulnerable to negative outcomes such as anxiety and underperformance? One answer, according to decades of achievement goal research, seems obvious: when they aim to avoid demonstrating inability (called avoidance self-validation goals). Less clear is whether such vulnerability also exists when aiming to demonstrate ability (approach self-validation goals). Surprisingly, two studies …

  • Added benefits

    Open AccessJessi L Smith, Ian M Handley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2017Cited by: 3References: 4

  • Absent autonomy

    Open AccessMonica C Skewes, Elizabeth A Shanahan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Diversity in Higher…2017Cited by: 1References: 8

    This research examines ways in which men and women university faculty sought self-determination in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process. Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 2012) research tends to view autonomy as the central factor in self-determination, taking priority over other psychological needs of relatedness and competence. The P&T process occurs within a context that inherently limits autonomy, providing a unique opportunity t…

  • Epistemological Dominance and Social Inequality

    Open AccessE A Cech, Anneke Metz et al.ARTICLEScience Technology & Human Values2017Cited by: 4References: 44

    Can epistemologies anchor processes of social inequality? In this paper, we consider how epistemological dominance in science, engineering, and health (SE&H) fields perpetuates disadvantages for students who enter higher education with alternative epistemologies. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Native American students enrolled at two US research universities who adhere to or revere indigenous epistemologies, we find that epistemological domi…

  • Interest Matters

    Open AccessJudith M Harackiewicz, Jessi L Smith et al.ARTICLEPolicy Insights from the…2016

    Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological state of attention and affect toward a particular object or topic, and an enduring predisposition to reengage over time. Integrating these two definitions, the four-phase model of interest development guides interventions that promote interest and capitalize on existin…

  • Quality of evidence revealing subtle gender biases in science is in the eye of the beholder

    Open AccessIan M Handley, Elizabeth R Brown et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2015

    Significance Ever-growing empirical evidence documents a gender bias against women and their research—and favoring men—in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Our research examined how receptive the scientific and public communities are to experimental evidence demonstrating this gender bias, which may contribute to women’s underrepresentation within STEM. Results from our three experiments, using general-public and un…

  • Losing its expected communal value

    Open AccessJessi L Smith, Elizabeth R Brown et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2015Cited by: 4References: 27

  • Giving back or giving up

    Jessi L Smith, E A Cech et al.ARTICLECultural Diversity & Ethnic…2014Cited by: 22References: 17

    Native Americans are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. We examine communal goal incongruence-the mismatch between students' emphasis on communal work goals and the noncommunal culture of STEM-as a possible factor in this underrepresentation. First, we surveyed 80 Native American STEM freshmen and found they more highly endorsed communal goals than individualistic work goals. Next, we surveyed 96 Native…

  • When Trying Hard Isn’t Natural

    Open AccessJessi L Smith, Karyn L Lewis et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2013

    Feeling like one exerts more effort than others may influence women’s feelings of belonging with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) and impede their motivation. In Study 1, women STEM graduate students perceived they exerted more effort than peers to succeed. For women, but not men, this effort expenditure perception predicted a decreased sense of belonging, which in turn decreased motivation. Study 2 tested whether the male-domina…

  • Goals Can Be Threatened to Extinction

    Open AccessKeith A Hutchison, Jessi L Smith et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2013

    Consensus is building that stereotype threat interferes with working memory, but how so? Grounded in the dual-process framework of Kane and Engle, the authors examined the extent to which stereotype threat interferes with one’s ability to maintain task goals in working memory and one’s ability to choose between conflicting responses. One hundred eighty-seven Montana State University (MSU) men were first given the Operation Span task (OSPAN) to as…

  • The Grass Is Greener in Non-Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Classes

    Open AccessDustin B Thoman, Jessica A Arizaga et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2013Cited by: 12References: 16

    When women feel pushed away by the “chilly climate” of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), they seek situations where they experience greater social belonging. We tested whether feelings of belonging to competing (non-STEM) classes were associated with women’s interest in their STEM classes using an interval contingent diary methodology. We recruited 62 undergraduate women STEM majors concurrently enrolled in STEM and Humanities/Li…

  • Women’s Bragging Rights

    Open AccessJessi L Smith, Meghan HuntoonARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2013Cited by: 5References: 16

    Within American gender norms is the expectation that women should be modest. We argue that violating this “modesty norm” by boasting about one’s accomplishments causes women to experience uncomfortable situational arousal that leads to lower motivation for and performance on a self-promotion task. We hypothesized that such negative effects could be offset when an external source for their situational arousal was made available. To test hypotheses…

  • Sit Big to Eat Big

    Open AccessJill Allen, Sarah J Gervai et al.ARTICLEPsychology of Women Quarterly2013Cited by: 3References: 12

    Body image concern has long been linked with unhealthy restrained eating patterns among women, yet scant research has examined factors to disrupt this process. At the same time, feminine stereotypes prescribe that women should be small, restrict their movements, speak softly, and limit their food intake (e.g., through dieting). Here, we examined whether women’s postural constriction or expansion moderated the relation between body shape concern a…

  • The Resource Replenishment Function of Interest

    Open AccessDustin B Thoman, Jessi L Smith et al.ARTICLESocial Psychological and…2011

    Interest is a positive emotion associated with increased approach motivation, effort, attention, and persistence. Although experiencing interest promotes behaviors that demand cognitive resources, interest is as a coping resource in frustrating learning situations and is central to self-regulation and sustained motivation. Positive affect, in general, tends to replenish resources, but based on the functions of interest and what interest promotes …