Elementary school women teachers transfer their fear of doing math to girls

Monday, January 25, 2010 - 16:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Female elementary school teachers who are anxious about math pass on to female students the stereotype that boys, not girls, are good at math. Girls who endorse this belief then do worse at math, research at the University of Chicago shows.

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