Vaccinations, Conceptual Change, and Reader/Text Interaction

• Vaughn, A. R., & Johnson, M. (2018). Communicating and enhancing teachers’ attitudes and understanding of influenza using refutational text. Vaccine, 36(48), 7306-7315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.10.040

Motivation and Impostor Syndrome in Higher Education – Participate

• The first rule of impostor syndrome: you talk about impostor syndrome in Times Higher Education
• Impostor syndrome: Two-thirds of females academics suffer badly in Times Higher Education
• Vaughn, A., Taasoobshirazi, G., & Johnson, M. (2019). Impostor phenomenon and motivation: Women in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 1-16. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2019.1568976 

Motivation for Applied Social Sciences Research

Psychological Misconceptions

Other research interests include: science misconceptions, credibility, epistemology, underrepresented groups in STEM and higher education