Improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, especially
for traditionally disadvantaged groups, is widely recognized as pivotal to the United States's …

Despite early claims that vocational interests could be used to distinguish successful
workers and superior students from their peers, interest measures are generally ignored in …

The degree of women's underrepresentation varies by STEM fields. Women are now
overrepresented in social sciences, yet only constitute a fraction of the engineering …

Vocational interests predict a variety of important outcomes and are among the most widely
applied individual difference constructs in psychology and education. Despite over 90 years …

Despite the inception of positive psychology more than 20 years ago, the fundamental
question about whether well-being and ill-being are bipolar (opposites of a single …

Professional communities are experiencing scandals involving unethical and illegal
practices daily. Yet it should not take a national major structure failure to highlight the …

Growing evidence on the predictive validity of vocational interests for job performance calls
for greater consideration of interest assessment in organizations. However, a consensus on …

Vocational interests predict educational and career choices, job performance, and career
success (Rounds & Su, 2014). Although sex differences in vocational interests have long …

Many areas of psychological science rely heavily on theoretical constructs, such as
personality traits, attitudes, and emotions, and many of these measured constructs are …

The supply of STEM graduates is an issue in many countries—raising the question of why
more students do not choose STEM careers. We aimed to address this question by drawing …