The SciencesDecember 17, 2015
What Science Has to Say about Affirmative Action
Experiments show that lower test scores and poorer academic performance can sometimes be explained by psychological stress rather than lower ability
Stories by Kate Turetsky and Valerie Purdie-Vaughns
Kate Turetsky is a third year doctoral student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in social psychology at Columbia University. She studies social inequality, threat, and stigma on college campuses, with a particular focus on examining these topics through theory-driven intervention and social network analysis. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, an adjunct professor at the Columbia Business School, and a core faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health