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Level 4 - Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Canada
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Re: Age, please?
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Originally Posted by ColdLogic
Meh maybe. On the one hand, I don't think that's saying much, certainly nothing that could be described as cutting edge in the world of genetics or pop psychology. And on the other hand, I'm more inclined to say that it is all genetic predisposition, and the effects of encouragement/discouragement of that kind of behavior are largely illusionary.
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Illusory? They have been demonstrated in controlled testing.
Stereotype Threat itself is a determinant of behavior and in the particular test scenario, Asian Women performed above or below average as a result of different stereotype primers. Observer Expectancy effect/Pygmallion effect/Rosenthal effect is pretty solid science. So is Pavlovian Conditioning, Hebb's Law and the neuroscientific equivelent Long-Term Potentiation.
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