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Canning, E. A., Ozier, E., Williams, H. E., AlRasheed, R., & Murphy, M. C. (2022). Professors who signal a fixed mindset about ability undermine women’s performance in STEM. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(5), 927-937.
Canning, Elizabeth A., et al. "Professors who signal a fixed mindset about ability undermine women’s performance in STEM." Social Psychological and Personality Science 13.5 (2022): 927-937.
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Professors who signal a fixed mindset about ability undermine women's performance in STEM.

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Two studies investigate how science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professors' fixed mindsets—the belief that intelligence is fixed and unchangeable—may induce stereotype threat and undermine women's performance. In an experiment (N= 217), we manipulated professors' mindset beliefs (fixed vs. growth) within a course syllabus. While both men and women perceived the fixed mindset professor to endorse more gender stereotypes and anticipated feeling less belonging in the course, women reported these …

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