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IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
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In my regular readings, I frequently come across excellent articles from the magazine Scientific American Mind. You may recall an article that I posted last year regarding the "learnability" of leadership.
I've found this article in the current issue that deals with how groups, from either intellectual or sporting concerns, can often become hamstrung by their past. An example of such could be Collingwood and the Colliwobbles. It deals with how these groups can break free from these self or externally imposed stereotypes.
It may deliver an important message to the RFC organisation. May be not!
How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)
People's performance on intellectual and athletic tasks is shaped by awareness of stereotypes about the groups to which they belong. New research explains why— and how we can break free from the expectations of others
By S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, Thomas Kessler and Stephen D. Reicher
Key Concepts
Sterotypes and Success
Faults in performance do not necessarily signify a dearth of skills or abilities, social scientists have found. Instead the failures may arise from awareness of stereotypes that others hold about the groups to which we belong.
Social identity research examines not only how we both take on (internalize) and live out (externalize) identities that are shared with our peers but also how these things can change.
This research can help us identify ways of responding to others’ stereotypes so that human talent and potential are not squandered. Although stereotypes can promote failure, they can also lift a person’s or group’s performance and be tools that promote social progress.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-stereotyping-yourself-contributes-to-success
I hope you enjoy it.
I've found this article in the current issue that deals with how groups, from either intellectual or sporting concerns, can often become hamstrung by their past. An example of such could be Collingwood and the Colliwobbles. It deals with how these groups can break free from these self or externally imposed stereotypes.
It may deliver an important message to the RFC organisation. May be not!
How Stereotyping Yourself Contributes to Your Success (or Failure)
People's performance on intellectual and athletic tasks is shaped by awareness of stereotypes about the groups to which they belong. New research explains why— and how we can break free from the expectations of others
By S. Alexander Haslam, Jessica Salvatore, Thomas Kessler and Stephen D. Reicher
Key Concepts
Sterotypes and Success
Faults in performance do not necessarily signify a dearth of skills or abilities, social scientists have found. Instead the failures may arise from awareness of stereotypes that others hold about the groups to which we belong.
Social identity research examines not only how we both take on (internalize) and live out (externalize) identities that are shared with our peers but also how these things can change.
This research can help us identify ways of responding to others’ stereotypes so that human talent and potential are not squandered. Although stereotypes can promote failure, they can also lift a person’s or group’s performance and be tools that promote social progress.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-stereotyping-yourself-contributes-to-success
I hope you enjoy it.