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Jessi L. Smith is affiliated with the University of Colorado Colorado Springs in the United States and works primarily within the Social Sciences domain. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Safety Research, Social Psychology, Education, Gender Studies, and General Health Professions.

Their scholarly contributions focus on topics such as Career Development and Diversity, Mentoring and Academic Development, Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Science Education and Pedagogy, Innovative Teaching Methods, and Educational Strategies and Epistemologies.

Jessi L. Smith has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including Dustin B. Thoman, Judith M. Harackiewicz, Michael W. Asher, Nicole M. Else-Quest, and Janet Shibley Hyde.

Their work appears in a variety of publication venues. They have multiple publications in CBE-Life Sciences Education, Frontiers in Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and Innovative Higher Education.

Recent papers by Jessi L. Smith include:

  • "Open science, communal culture, and women's participation in the movement to improve science" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Utility-value intervention promotes persistence and diversity in STEM" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Assimilation Undercuts Authenticity: A Consequence of Women's Masculine Self-Presentation in Masculine Contexts" (2020, Psychology of Women Quarterly)
  • "Diversity fatigue: A survey for measuring attitudes towards diversity enhancing efforts in academia" (2021, Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology)
  • "Diversity Interventions in the Classroom: From Resistance to Action" (2021, CBE-Life Sciences Education)

Best Publications

  • Interest Matters: The Importance of Promoting Interest in Education

    Judith M. Harackiewicz;Jessi L. Smith;Stacy J. Priniski

  • When Trying Hard Isn’t Natural Women’s Belonging With and Motivation for Male-Dominated STEM Fields As a Function of Effort Expenditure Concerns

    Jessi L. Smith;Karyn L. Lewis;Lauren Hawthorne;Sara D. Hodges

  • Understanding the Process of Stereotype Threat: A Review of Mediational Variables and New Performance Goal Directions.

    Jessi L. Smith

  • From Bench to Bedside: A Communal Utility Value Intervention to Enhance Students' Biomedical Science Motivation.

    Elizabeth R. Brown;Jessi L. Smith;Dustin B. Thoman;Jill M. Allen

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

    Ian M. Handley;Elizabeth R. Brown;Corinne A. Moss-Racusin;Jessi L. Smith

  • The stereotyped task engagement process: The role of interest and achievement motivation.

    Jessi L. Smith;Carol Sansone;Paul H. White

  • Interest and self-regulation: The relation between having to and wanting to

    Carol Sansone;Jessi L. Smith

  • Giving back or giving up: Native American student experiences in science and engineering

    Jessi L. Smith;Erin Cech;Anneke Metz;Meghan Huntoon

  • An examination of implicitly activated, explicitly activated, and nullified stereotypes on mathematical performance: It's not just a woman's issue.

    Jessi L. Smith;Jessi L. Smith;Paul H. White

  • The Role of Altruistic Values in Motivating Underrepresented Minority Students for Biomedicine

    Dustin B. Thoman;Elizabeth R. Brown;Andrew Z. Mason;Allen G. Harmsen

  • Feeling the Threat: Stereotype Threat as a Contextual Barrier to Women's Science Career Choice Intentions.

    Eric D. Deemer;Dustin B. Thoman;Justin P. Chase;Justin P. Chase;Jessi L. Smith

  • Beyond Performance: A Motivational Experiences Model of Stereotype Threat.

    Dustin B. Thoman;Jessi L. Smith;Elizabeth R. Brown;Justin Chase

  • Development of the Domain Identification Measure: A Tool for Investigating Stereotype Threat Effects:

    Jessi L. Smith;Paul H. White

  • Other People as a Source of Interest in an Activity

    James D. Isaac;Carol Sansone;Jessi L. Smith

  • Project SOAR: a training program to increase school counselors' knowledge and confidence regarding suicide prevention and intervention.

    Keith A. King;Jessi L. Smith

  • The Resource Replenishment Function of Interest

    Dustin B. Thoman;Jessi L. Smith;Paul J. Silvia

  • Now Hiring! Empirically Testing a Three-Step Intervention to Increase Faculty Gender Diversity in STEM

    Jessi L. Smith;Ian M. Handley;Alexander V. Zale;Sara Rushing

  • To Grab and To Hold: Cultivating communal goals to overcome cultural and structural barriers in first generation college students' science interest.

    Jill M. Allen;Gregg A. Muragishi;Jessi L. Smith;Dustin B. Thoman

  • Closing the communal gap: The importance of communal affordances in science career motivation

    Elizabeth R. Brown;Dustin B. Thoman;Jessi L. Smith;Amanda B. Diekman

  • No Place for a Woman: Evidence for Gender Bias in Evaluations of Presidential Candidates

    Jessi L. Smith;David Paul;Rachel Paul

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol Sansone
Carol Sansone University of Utah
Sara D. Hodges
Sara D. Hodges University of Oregon
William Ickes
William Ickes The University of Texas at Arlington
Judith A. Hall
Judith A. Hall Northeastern University
Judith M. Harackiewicz
Judith M. Harackiewicz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Corinne A. Moss-Racusin
Corinne A. Moss-Racusin Skidmore College
Amanda B. Diekman
Amanda B. Diekman Indiana University
Nilanjana Dasgupta
Nilanjana Dasgupta University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sapna Cheryan
Sapna Cheryan University of Washington
Paul J. Silvia
Paul J. Silvia University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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