Questions of belonging: how wise interventions can help youth flourish
Explaining how interventions can address feelings of uncertainty for students in a new school environment, and help them thrive in the long-term.
When students enter a new school environment, they can often wonder, “Do people like me belong here?” This "belonging uncertainty" is most potent when students enter settings in which their group has historically been excluded, is underrepresented, or faces negative stereotypes.
In this talk, Professor Walton will describe a series of intervention experiments testing “social-belonging interventions,” which aim to address these worries. He will share how these interventions can help students thrive years into the future, including to support better achievement, better health and well-being, and reducing inequalities. Professor Walton will also share some of the methodological innovations his team has implemented in large-scale experiments to understand heterogeneity in where and for whom an intervention is effective, and where and for whom it is not, integrating the concepts of “psychological affordances” and “local identity groups.”
Finally, Professor Walton will set out to explain how belonging interventions are an example of a broader class of approaches to addressing personal and social challenges, and improving health that he calls “wise interventions".
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Professor Greg Walton
Greg Walton is the Michael Forman University Fellow and Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. His research investigates psychological processes that contribute to major social problems and how “wise” psychological interventions that target these processes can address such problems and help people flourish, even over long periods of time.
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