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Access Is Not Enough: Cultural Mismatch Persists to Limit First-Generation Students' Opportunities for Achievement Throughout College by Phillips, L. Taylor, Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M., Goudeau, Sébastien

“…United States higher education prioritizes independence as the cultural ideal. As a result, first-generation students (neither parent has a four-year degree)…”
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Discrimination and the Stress Response: Psychological and Physiological Consequences of Anticipating Prejudice in Interethnic Interactions by SAWYER, Pamela J, MAJOR, Brenda, CASAD, Bettina J, TOWNSEND, Sarah S. M, MENDES, Wendy Berry

“…We sought to demonstrate that individuals who anticipate interacting with a prejudiced cross-race/ethnicity partner show an exacerbated stress response, as…”
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Achievement Is Not Class-Neutral: Working Together Benefits People From Working-Class Contexts by Dittmann, Andrea G., Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M.

“…Previous research has documented that people from working-class contexts have fewer skills linked to academic success than their middle-class counterparts…”
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Interdependent Behavior Only Benefits Employees From Working-Class Backgrounds When It Is Both Enacted and Valued by Dittmann, Andrea G., Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M.

“…Social class disparities are pervasive in American society. In higher education, one critical driver of these disparities is the cultural mismatch between the…”
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Choice as an Act of Meaning: The Case of Social Class by Stephens, Nicole M, Markus, Hazel Rose, Townsend, Sarah S. M

“…Social class is one important source of models of agency-normative guidelines for how to be a "good" person. Using choice as a prototypically agentic action, 5…”
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Social-Class Disparities in Higher Education and Professional Workplaces: The Role of Cultural Mismatch by Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M., Dittmann, Andrea G.

“…Differences in structural resources and individual skills contribute to social-class disparities in both U.S. gateway institutions of higher education and…”
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Empowerment Through Difference: An Online Difference-Education Intervention Closes the Social Class Achievement Gap by Townsend, Sarah S. M., Stephens, Nicole M., Smallets, Stephanie, Hamedani, MarYam G.

“…A growing body of work suggests that teaching college students a contextual understanding of difference—that students’ different experiences in college are the…”
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What’s in a Name? The Hidden Historical Ideologies Embedded in the Black and African American Racial Labels by Hall, Erika V., Townsend, Sarah S. M., Carter, James T.

“…History can inconspicuously repeat itself through words and language. We explored the association between the “Black” and “African American” racial labels and…”
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Difference-Education Improves First-Generation Students’ Grades Throughout College and Increases Comfort With Social Group Difference by Townsend, Sarah S. M., Stephens, Nicole M., Hamedani, MarYam G.

“…Difference-education interventions teach people a contextual theory of difference: that social group difference comes from participating in and adapting to…”
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A cultural mismatch: Independent cultural norms produce greater increases in cortisol and more negative emotions among first-generation college students by Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S.M., Markus, Hazel Rose, Phillips, L. Taylor

“…American universities increasingly admit first-generation students—students whose parents do not have four-year degrees. Once admitted, these students…”
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Is Diversity Enough? Cross-Race and Cross-Class Interactions in College Occur Less Often Than Expected, but Benefit Members of Lower Status Groups When They Occur by Carey, Rebecca M., Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M., Hamedani, MarYam G.

“…More than ever before, institutions of higher education are seeking to increase the racial and social class diversity of their student bodies. Given these…”
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The Benefits of Difference-Education Interventions in Lower-Resourced Institutions by Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M., Carey, Rebecca M., Hamedani, MarYam G., Brannon, Tiffany N., Murphy, Mary C.

“…Difference-education is an intervention that addresses psychological barriers that can undermine the academic performance of first-generation college students…”
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From “In the Air” to “Under the Skin”: Cortisol Responses to Social Identity Threat by Townsend, Sarah S. M., Major, Brenda, Gangi, Cynthia E., Mendes, Wendy Berry

“…The authors examined women’s neuroendocrine stress responses associated with sexism. They predicted that, when being evaluated by a man, women who chronically…”
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Suspicion of motives predicts minorities' responses to positive feedback in interracial interactions by Major, Brenda, Kunstman, Jonathan W., Malta, Brenna D., Sawyer, Pamela J., Townsend, Sarah S.M., Mendes, Wendy Berry

“…Strong social and legal norms in the United States discourage the overt expression of bias against ethnic and racial minorities, increasing the attributional…”
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A Difference-Education Intervention Equips First-Generation College Students to Thrive in the Face of Stressful College Situations by Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M., Hamedani, MarYam G., Destin, Mesmin, Manzo, Vida

“…A growing social psychological literature reveals that brief interventions can benefit disadvantaged students. We tested a key component of the theoretical…”
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Difference Matters: Teaching Students a Contextual Theory of Difference Can Help Them Succeed by Stephens, Nicole M., Hamedani, MarYam G., Townsend, Sarah S. M.

“…Today’s increasingly diverse and divided world requires the ability to understand and navigate across social-group differences. We propose that interventions…”
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Can the Absence of Prejudice Be More Threatening Than Its Presence? It Depends on One's Worldview by Townsend, Sarah S. M, Major, Brenda, Sawyer, Pamela J, Mendes, Wendy Berry

“…The present research used validated cardiovascular measures to examine threat reactions among members of stigmatized groups when interacting with members of…”
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Understanding how people detect social class from speech requires taking a cultural psychological perspective by Stephens, Nicole M., Townsend, Sarah S. M.

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A rose by any other name?: The consequences of subtyping "African-Americans" from "Blacks" by Hall, Erika V, Phillips, Katherine W, Townsend, Sarah SM

“…Racial labels often define how social groups are perceived. The current research utilized both archival and experimental methods to explore the consequences of…”
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PATHOS: a phase II/III trial of risk-stratified, reduced intensity adjuvant treatment in patients undergoing transoral surgery for Human papillomavirus (HPV) positive oropharyngeal cancer by Owadally, Waheeda, Hurt, Chris, Timmins, Hayley, Parsons, Emma, Townsend, Sarah, Patterson, Joanne, Hutcheson, Katherine, Powell, Ned, Beasley, Matthew, Palaniappan, Nachi, Robinson, Max, Jones, Terence M, Evans, Mererid

“…Human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma is increasing in incidence worldwide. Current treatments are associated with high survival…”
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