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Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform

In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations — specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.The first psychologist to systematically study...

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How Politicians Get Away With Dodging The Question

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Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning

In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade...

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Big Sibling's Big Influence: Some Behaviors Run In The Family

Patricia East is a developmental psychologist who began her career working at an OB-GYN clinic in California.

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