Alfie Kohn on Nostr: Fascinating study: Lower social-class university students (& other adults) do worse ...
Fascinating study: Lower social-class university students (& other adults) do worse than their higher-class counterparts on a reasoning task only when they've been led to focus on outperforming others. Competition, in other words, exacerbates social inequality:
https://psycnet.apa.org/buy/2019-10560-001Published at
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