From 399 male and female students, researchers from the University of Colorado asked a selected group to write about personally important values selected from a list (including "relationships with friends and family," "gaining knowledge") during the 15-minute writing exercise. Other students were placed into a control group and asked to write about their least important values and to explain why they might be important to other people。
At the end of the 15-week course, the gap between male and female academic performance had narrowed for the women who had taken part in the values affirmation exercise. At the end of the course, about 56 percent of women in the control group had earned a C. But among the women who performed the affirmation exercise, the Cs decreased to 41 percent。
The stereotype that men are better than women at science could put pressure on women, according to the researchers, which could lead to poorer outcomes for these women. The writing exercise likely buffered against the threat, the researchers found。
"These results tell us that writing self-affirming essays improved the affirmed women's exam performances by alleviating their anxiety related to being seen in light of negative stereotypes about women in science," said the study researcher Akira Miyake from the University of Colorado。
美国“趣味科学”网站29日报道称,长久以来,男性在科技、工程学以及数学领域一直处于优势地位,但风水也可以轮流转——最新一项研究表明,通过自我肯定性质的写作练习,女性也可以在理工领域表现不错,性别差异得以缩小。
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