When stereotypes are evoked, they fill people’s mind with distracting thoughts - with secret worries about confirming the stereotype. People usually aren’t aware of it, but they don’t have enough mental power left to do their best on the test. This doesn’t happen to everybody, however. It mainly happens to people who are in a fixed mindset. It’s when people are thinking in terms of fixed traits that the stereotypes get to them.
-Carol S. Dweck
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