Mimi Bong, Dayeon Jeong, Seohee Park, Jimin Suh, Suyeon Gena Kim, Jenny Chaehyun Park, Jiwon Kim
{"title":"Cultural Insights into the Motivation Paradox of East Asian Learners","authors":"Mimi Bong, Dayeon Jeong, Seohee Park, Jimin Suh, Suyeon Gena Kim, Jenny Chaehyun Park, Jiwon Kim","doi":"10.1007/s10648-026-10140-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10140-9","url":null,"abstract":"Motivation is deeply influenced by cultural and contextual factors, which makes the search for truly universal processes difficult. In this review, we identified several broad cultural forces shaping East Asian learners’ motivation, including relational self-understanding and familism, collective attribution of achievement, and low self-enhancement motivation, which arise from collectivism; as well as self-criticism, meritocratic and exam-oriented pedagogy, demands for effort and high achievement, and a strong sense of role responsibilities, which are rooted in Confucianism. These forces help explain culture-specific phenomena such as the motivation-achievement gap observed among East Asian students. We then illustrated the East Asian origins and meanings of constructs related to choice, avoidance motivation, and confidence, clarifying paradoxical findings that cannot be adequately explained by Western theories through a culturally informed analysis. Building on these insights, we proposed several directions for future research along with theory-specific questions, including the need to re-evaluate the nature of widely used motivation constructs within the context of particular cultural socialization, to explicitly test cultural moderation in motivational dynamics, and to develop alternative concepts and frameworks that more accurately represent East Asian students’ motivation. By pursuing these directions, we hope researchers can refine and expand motivation theories in ways that more fully account for culture-specific processes, thereby broadening their explanatory power across diverse contexts.","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147702309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juliette C. Désiron, Julien Venni, Mireille Bétrancourt
{"title":"Mapping the Heterogeneity of Emotional Design Features in Multimedia Research: A Systematic Review","authors":"Juliette C. Désiron, Julien Venni, Mireille Bétrancourt","doi":"10.1007/s10648-026-10138-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10138-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Language Aptitude in Child Second Language Learning: A Meta-analysis","authors":"He Sun, Shaofeng Li, Doyoung Kim, Shernice Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10648-026-10134-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10134-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ouhao Chen, Richard Allen, Amanda Waterman, John Sweller
{"title":"The Relationship Between Cognitive Offloading and the Transient Information Effect","authors":"Ouhao Chen, Richard Allen, Amanda Waterman, John Sweller","doi":"10.1007/s10648-026-10132-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10132-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"255 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How School Racial Climate Creates Opportunity Structures for Belonging: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis","authors":"Christy M. Byrd, Alisa Sas, Renata Halls-Gordon, Jacqueline Cerda-Smith, Stella Jackman-Ryan, Jaylene Patterson","doi":"10.1007/s10648-025-10078-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10078-4","url":null,"abstract":"School belonging is a fundamental need that describes how much one feels they fit in, are valued, and accepted within a school (Goodenow, <jats:italic>Psychology in the Schools</jats:italic> 30:79–90, 1993). In this paper, we explore how racialization and racism contribute to opportunity structures for belonging (Gray et al., <jats:italic>Educational Psychologist</jats:italic> 53:97–113, 2018) through school racial climate and report on a meta-analysis of the associations between dimensions of school racial climate and school belonging in primary, secondary, and postsecondary settings around the world. A literature search resulted in 6396 citations, with a final sample of 77 studies and 276 effect sizes. Most (83%) of the studies were conducted in the USA, with 45% in primary/secondary schools and 55% in postsecondary settings. Analyses consisted of three-level random-effects models with tests of moderating effects of country, marginalized group membership, school level, and publication type and showed significant correlations between belonging and discrimination—personally experienced, general negative interactions, equal status/positive interactions, cultural socialization, intercultural competence socialization, critical consciousness socialization, mainstream socialization, positive interaction socialization, commitment to diversity, general socialization, and general racial climate. There was not a significant association for color-evasive socialization. In the discussion, we note the need for more longitudinal research, more research outside of the USA, and more ethnic-racial socialization research in higher education. We conclude by discussing challenges in the measurement of school racial climate and call for more nuanced investigations on belonging as a product of students’ embeddedness within racialized systems.","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Instructional Implications of Evolutionary Perspective on Human Cognitive Architecture as an Intelligent Natural Information Processing System","authors":"Slava Kalyuga","doi":"10.1007/s10648-026-10135-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10135-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"228-229 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147535993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julia J. Yi, A. Angelique Aitken, Emily Sharp, Adiba Nusrat, Micheal Sandbank
{"title":"What Works for Teaching Word Reading to Adolescents? A Meta-Analytic Investigation","authors":"Julia J. Yi, A. Angelique Aitken, Emily Sharp, Adiba Nusrat, Micheal Sandbank","doi":"10.1007/s10648-026-10124-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10124-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48344,"journal":{"name":"Educational Psychology Review","volume":"83 12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147461809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}