设计科学家的化身:一种分析性别和种族科学家刻板印象的新工具
Angelina Joy1, Channing J Mathews2, Kelly Lynn Mulvey1
1North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America.
PloS one
|February 11, 2026
概括
关于科学家的刻板印象影响了科学,技术,工程和数学 (STEM) 的多样性. 一个新的数字工具揭示了学生的感知如何影响科学家的化身创造,突出了包容性STEM环境的需要.
科学领域:
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 在STEM教育方面.
- 刻板印象研究研究 刻板印象研究
背景情况:
- 传统对科学家的描述往往排除女性和少数民族,延续有害的刻板印象.
- 这些刻板印象可以阻止代表性不足的群体从事科学,技术,工程和数学 (STEM) 领域的职业生涯.
- 评估这些刻板印象的现有方法在范围和可访问性方面可能是有限的.
研究的目的:
- 评估本科生对科学家的看法,使用一个新的数字绘制科学家任务.
- 检查学生明确的STEM刻板印象,种族态度和他们创造的科学家化身之间的关系.
- 引入和验证一个新的数字工具来评估科学家的刻板印象.
主要方法:
- 使用数字"设计一个科学家的化身"应用程序,这是"画一个科学家"任务的变体,与371名美国本科生合作.
- 评估了参与者的明确的STEM刻板印象和色盲种族态度.
- 分析了为科学家化身选择的皮肤色调及其与人口统计和态度因素的相关性.
主要成果:
- 化身的皮肤色调选择与基于和和光度的"白色"或"黑色"科学家的看法相关.
- 参与者的性别和性别刻板印象影响了女性科学家化身的创作.
- 参与者的种族/种族,种族刻板印象和色盲种族态度影响了创造黑人或拉丁裔科学家化身的可能性.
结论:
- 调查结果强调需要更多多样化和包容性的STEM环境来挑战现有的刻板印象.
- 建议采取干预措施,积极重塑对科学家可以成为谁的看法.
- 数字设计-科学家任务提供了一个可扩展和可量化的方法来评估科学家在不同的人口中的刻板印象.
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