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#91 Lee Jussim: How Stereotypes Work, and the Current State of Social Psychology

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The Power of Self Fulfilling Prophecies

Social psychologists have written about self-fulferen't prophesies as if they were powerful and pervasive. There's just not a shred of evidence for anyone, he says. When positive ones occur, teachers hold kids to high standards but also provide support that helps them meet those standards. If you're emotionally supportive without holding people to high standards, well, you're nice and everybody will like you, but nobody's going to actually accomplish anything.

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