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Breaking free of stereotype threat with Claude Steele

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Self-Assistation Theory

Self-affirmation theory is how far reaching the implications are even beyond stereotype threat. One of the things that I learned from reading your work on self-affirmation is you have to be really careful if you're going to lead with a compliment before you criticize. You've kind of positioned the critique in a way that it doesn't indict the whole person in their whole soul.

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