From "girls suck at maths" and "men are so insensitive" to "he is getting a bit senile with age" or "black people struggle at university", there's no shortage of common cultural stereotypes about social groups. Chances are ...
Social Sciences
Aug 28, 2018
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Data from 160,000 ranked chess players and more than five million chess matches suggests that women playing against men perform better than expected based on their official chess ratings, according to a new study by the University ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2018
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Five years ago, Silicon Valley was rocked by a wave of "brogrammer" bad behavior, when overfunded, highly entitled, mostly white and male startup founders did things that were juvenile, out of line and just plain stupid. ...
Business
Aug 11, 2017
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Men often appear to have an advantage over women in the workplace, but that is not always the case in female-dominated industries.
Social Sciences
Jun 26, 2017
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Social mythologies, like the old saw that "white men can't jump," may in fact have some negative consequences for those being stereotyped. And even if the majority of people do not openly endorse these negative beliefs, recent ...
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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Subjecting female soccer players to a negative stereotype about their abilities reduced their dribbling speed significantly, according to a new study published in Psychology of Sport and Exercise. The results demonstrate ...
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2016
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Sharing a classroom with students who are protected from negative stereotypes about their group can boost all students' grades, new Stanford research shows.
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2016
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Latinos are the largest racial/ethnic minority in the U.S., yet they are not graduating from college at the same rates as their peers. A new study from the University of Kansas shows that media representations of Latinos ...
Social Sciences
Sep 09, 2015
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Climate change denial in public discourse may encourage climate scientists to over-emphasise scientific uncertainty and is also affecting how they themselves speak - and perhaps even think - about their own research, a new ...
Environment
May 07, 2015
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Why do some solid students stumble on the SATs or final exams? Maybe the tests were too hard, or the teachers didn't cover the necessary material, or the students didn't study properly. But perhaps the ability to perform ...
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2014
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