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Gender, Race, and Performance Expectations of College Students
Author(s) -
Mayo Matthew W.,
Christenfeld Nicholas
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of multicultural counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.545
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2161-1912
pISSN - 0883-8534
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1912.1999.tb00217.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , psychology , social psychology , minority group , higher education , gender studies , ethnic group , sociology , political science , anthropology , law
Women often have low performance expectations for themselves but expect other women to succeed. We found minority students think not only that they will do worse than other minority group members, but also that their group will do poorly. Low individual and group success expectations make the results for minorities doubly troubling.