The present research examines whether women burdened by stereotype threat, a threat of confirming negative ingroup stereotypes (Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(5), 797–811), are less able to abandon old strategies and employ newer, more efficient ones when conditio...

Search Institute developed the REACH Framework and Survey in response to growing interest among education practitioners and leaders in understanding the role of motivation and related social-emotional factors in academic motivation and persistence. This resource builds on diverse bodies of research by many scholars to create and test a multi-dimensional model of student motivation and persevera...

Blastomycosis is a fungal infection of immunocompetent hosts. We present a case of cutaneous blastomycosis acquired in New Brunswick, which provides evidence that this disease is endemic in Atlantic Canada. This case also demonstrates that the diagnosis of blastomycosis may be elusive. Perseverance, a high index of clinical suspicion and close cooperation with the microbiology laboratory may be...

A theft was staged 70 times for pairs of eyewitnesses (N = 140) who then made a photo-lineup identification. Witnesses then received 1 of 9 types of information regarding the alleged identification decision of their co-witness. Witnesses told that their co-witness identified the same person whom they had identified showed an increase in the confidence they expressed to a confederate police offi...

The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about other individual differences that predict success. The authors tested the importance of 1 noncognitive trait: grit. Defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4% of the variance in success outcomes, including educational att...

Overactive bladder is a problem that many women experience and suffer with in silence for years. This is a case study about one such woman. Anna had problems with incontinence for more than five years when she sought treatment. This article presents the story of her journey and perseverance to achieve control of her bladder.

The typical classroom illustrates many common social psychology concepts and phenomena, although often with less–than–desirable results. I give examples of self–handicapping, self–serving bias, belief perseverance, the fundamental attribution error, social categorization, and the overjustification effect as they occur in the classroom. It is possible that alerting instructors and students to th...

Radiation therapy (RT) developed in several eras. Patients’ needs for more effective treatment guided the efforts. The development of ion beam therapy (IBT) can be seen as a corollary in this continuous endeavor to optimize disease control while minimizing normal-tissue damage. It could not have materialized, however, without the curiosity, ingenuity, and perseverance of researchers, engineers,...

A career in science is a journey of wonder and discovery. To succeed in science requires curiosity, perseverance, a good dose of luck, and wise guidance from those who have taken the journey ahead of you. We also need to use our science skills to contribute to public debate on complex issues of the day.