Stereotype Threat

Joy Resmovits

Reassuring Kids About Failure Boosts Scores, Says Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Education News, Testing, Video, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Psychological Research, Claude Steele, France, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, Stereotype Threat, Psychology, Education Reform, Teachers, Education News

Every day for the last four years, Leah Alcala has greeted her Berkeley, California, middle-school students with an exercise she calls "my favorite no...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: You Are Not Too Pretty To Do Math--Or Science!

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Women, Stem, Jane Goodall, Science, Mathematics, Girls in Science, Marie Curie, Engineering, Girls, Video, Math, Talk Nerdy to Me, Google Science Fair, Cara Santa Maria, Stereotype Threat, Technology, Women in Science, Science News

2012-02-08-jdjgidjfidjfidijfdfcnvmnmvcnvmcnvmcbvcvbmcbvmcbv.jpgWomen make up just about half of the American workforce, but we hold less than a quarter of the STEM jobs. Why is that?

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Why Women Rule At Negotiation

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Women and Money, Negotiation, Women, Stereotypes, Reframing, Women in Business, Stereotype Threat, Women in Leadership, Gender, Women News
Tara Sophia Mohr

Women, can you change your vision of a what a highly skilled negotiator looks like, to a picture that looks more like you?

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Confidence Matters Just as Much as Ability

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Mental Rotation, Stereotype Threat, Mental Rotation Ability, Stereotype Threat Women, Stereotype Threat Theory, Stereotype Threat Effect, Stereotype Threat Definition, Stereotype Threat Gender, Stereotype Threat Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, Science News
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

A bulk of research shows that when people are put in situations where they are expected to fail, their performance does plummet. They turn into different people. Their head literally shuts down, and they end up confirming the expectations.

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Context, Gender, and Why Riley's Right to Be Pissed Off About Toys

Sam Sommers | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Halloween Costumes, Viral Videos, Newborns, Youtube, Sex Differences, Gender, Daughters, Happy Meal, Star Wars, Fast Food, Mars and Venus, Speed Dating, Context, Math, Situations Matter, Stereotype Threat, Video Games, Video, Parents News
Sam Sommers

Behavioral science has now shown us that many of the gender differences we habitually chalk up to biology or evolution aren't as set in stone as we assume.

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