Was it Henry Ford who said "If you think you can or you think you can't, you're right"?
The research digest blog provides useful summaries of the latest psychological research.
Its latest entry reports on a study which examined the question why girls underperform at science. Turns out that the higher levels of stereotype in a country, the worse girls do in science.
So here, as in many other cases, addressing the stereotype by providing counter examples could have a real impact. Same goes for any stereotype of underperformance in any area.
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