Beliefs in “Brilliance” and Belonging Uncertainty in Male and Female STEM Students

A wide-spread stereotype that influences women’s paths into STEM (or non-STEM) fields is the implicit association of science and mathematics with “male” and with requiring high levels of male-associated “brilliance.” Recent research on such “field-specific ability beliefs” has shown that a high emph...

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Main Authors: Anne Deiglmayr, Elsbeth Stern, Renate Schubert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01114/full