Why boys will be boys: stereotype threat and boys' academic underachievement
This thesis examines whether stereotype threat contributes to boys' relative academic underachievement, whereby negative expectations about gender and performance become self-fulfilling. I present five studies that determine the role that stereotype threat plays in boys' academic underachi...
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University of Kent
2013
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.592669 |