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...particular psychological coin on its opposite side: recent research has found that positive stereotype reinforcement may be just as powerful as any negative threat. In a study published in the current issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Indiana University psychologists found that women's performance on math tests did not suffer as researchers had expected, even when the typical "women are bad at math" stereotype was invoked, as long as a positive stereotype (say, college students are good at math) was presented at the same time. In this case, that means that the aged are likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Stereotypes Defeat the Stereotyped | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...more like it’s personalized.”Kendall says that he took the SAT in March as practice and that he had intended to take them again last weekend. From beginning his preparation until March, his score jumped from 1800 to 2050. His strength lies in math but that his performance on the writing section could use improvement. He found the question generator very helpful in keeping his practice tailored toward his weaknesses. The one potential drawback? The lack of practice for the essay: “That might be the only setback that there is right...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prepping for the Big Leagues | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...While Sessions alone can't change the basic legislative math that promises whomever Obama picks to replace retiring Justice David Souter a fairly easy path to confirmation, he can certainly liven up the proceedings. It's not even that Sessions is a dedicated antiabortion, antitax conservative, a vocal opponent of granting citizenship to illegal immigrants who helped tank immigration-reform efforts in 2005 and 2006. It's that he himself has quite a bit of history being on the other side of a bitter judicial nomination fight, one that he lost after being accused of holding some objectionable views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sessions Could Make Obama's Supreme Court Fight Tougher | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...also greatly enjoy solving math problems and developing algorithms for simple problems in my free time," Lucia said...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Baby Einsteins Go To Harvard | 5/5/2009 | See Source »

Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and has already made his name in the techie world creating Mathematica, a computational program that is widely used in engineering, science, and math fields...

Author: By Anita B. Hofschneider | Title: The Mountain Dew to Your Coke? | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

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