<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e8b776bd-2cd9-4c10-b583-c0ff28efa0ae/119DE262-AE7A-4B0B-8947-624B4773289E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/07/070524.beilock-ct.html" href="http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/07/070524.beilock-ct.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www-news.uchicago.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/07/070524.beilock-ct.html"><DIV> Knowing how stereotypes can affect test results may help students overcome such distractions. Previous studies have suggested that students trained to think of their intellect as something they can improve, rather than a fixed trait, are less vulnerable to the effects of stereotypes.</DIV><BR /><DIV> In Beilock's study, the people who did best were allowed to practice the problems beforehand and had less need to do computations in real time. That reduced the overall strain on working memory, offsetting the strain that the stereotype reminder apparently caused.</DIV><BR /><DIV> Even reading about why stereotypes make people perform below their abilities appears to help some students ease their test anxiety, said Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of psychology at New York University.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/119DE262-AE7A-4B0B-8947-624B4773289E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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