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One of the benefits of communication is it allows us to demonstrate that we truly see other people.
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My name is Matt Abrahams, and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.
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Today, I look forward to speaking with Claude Steele.
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Claude is the Lucy Stern Professor and Social Scientist Emeritus at Stanford University.
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He's held several academic leadership roles, including Dean of Stanford's Graduate School of Education and provost at both UC Berkeley and Columbia.
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He is widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on stereotype threat, and he is the author of Whistling Vivaldi and his latest book,
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Churn, The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It.
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Well, welcome, Claude.
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I have been a long admirer of your work, and I'm so excited to have this conversation with you.
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I couldn't be happier to be here.
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It's been something I've been really looking forward to.
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Thank you.
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Are you ready to get started?
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I'm ready to go.
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All right.
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Well, I'd like to start with how I came to first know of you
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and your work as an undergraduate here at Stanford studying psychology.
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I learned about stereotype threat and found it really not only interesting but really important.
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I'd love for you to take a moment just to share with everybody what
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that is and the impact it can have on people.
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It's a kind of social predicament that one can find oneself in.
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You're in a situation where there are negative stereotypes about one or another of your identity, your age, your race, your religion,
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and the stereotypes apply to what you're doing in that situation,
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you know then that you could be judged or treated in terms of that negative stereotype.
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And if the situation is important to you, that prospect is threatening.
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And that's what stereotype threat is.
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It's just finding yourself in a circumstance where, boy, I'm the oldest guy hear
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and right are they going to think all my ideas are are dated and you know i have no
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technological competence at all and those are stereotypes i know out there about age
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and and when i'm in a situation where they're applicable and
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if it's an important situation i can worry about that and
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that that worry can affect my behavior right there in the immediate situation If I'm trying to perform something,
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a standardized test where a lot of the research has been done, or an athletic activity, or any kind of intellectual activity where the stereotype applies,
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it can have a pretty serious effect.
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It could motivate you to avoid that situation.
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So it can have real, really pretty profound effects on our choices as well as our behaviors, who our friends are, where we want to live,
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what schools we want our children to go to, where we feel comfortable, where we don't feel comfortable.
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A lot of that would take the form of stereotype threat.
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It can impact us in the moment, but also long term.
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I'm curious, how does social media impact and influence this kind of stereotype and stereotype threat?
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its effectiveness, its dramatic effectiveness at purveying stereotypes and images of groups and images of different identities,
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it can amplify the number of situations
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that people feel this kind of threat in because it's the currency is in big parts summary,
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quick images of identities, and people have no tolerance for any elaboration or exceptions,
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it can be very generative of this kind of threat.
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I do think, though, it can sometimes purvey things that would reduce the threat, images that would reduce the threat.
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So it can cut both ways,
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but so much of the tenor of social media seems to be more of a negative sort,
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And that makes us all the more, in a diverse society like the one in which we live,
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it makes us all the more conscious of our identities and what people might think of us.
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So the whole phenomenon can be amplified by social media.
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So it can absolutely amplify.
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And I think it necessitates that as we consume social media,
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that we at least think about what are the stereotypes being communicated and how does that have impact on us?
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And by bringing that to consciousness might impact how we feel about it.
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Which leads me to the next question.
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I'm very curious to know what are some of the most effective
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and lasting interventions that can help mitigate stereotype threat and the negative impact from it?
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There's been an important evolution over the last couple of decades of research on that.
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Probably for the most part in academic settings, but increasingly in business settings.
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In academic settings, you know, you have minority kids.
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Let's say African-American kid.
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He's in an integrated classroom, which we think of as a very desirable thing.
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But he does know at some level, and his parents know, that there are these negative stereotypes about African-Americans' abilities and the like.
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It can nag at a person, and they can be particularly vigilant as to how they're being perceived.
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And that can, as we just mentioned, interfere with performance right there in the immediate situation.
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Or it can even, if they feel that pressure is kind of persistent, they can disidentify with the whole enterprise.
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You know, every time I raise my hand and if I have this extra worry that if I get it wrong, I'm going to be seen in terms of those stereotypes
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and confirm that pressure every day in an important situation like schooling can be very daunting.
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You could see in an analogous situation, a white guy who's really good at basketball,
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trying to make a career at that, he's going to be seen in terms of, or could be seen he doesn't know for sure if
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that decision by the coach had anything to do with stereotypes about his group's abilities
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and in basketball or not he doesn't know for sure
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so a lot of the work has looked at its impact in schooling and there is where i think
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progress has been made one thing
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that helps is even knowing about stereotypes yeah it's just
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that this is a social pressure coming from the social context that we're in and and let's understand it as such, that can lower its impact.
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That knowledge has been subject to considerable research and pretty well established.
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I think affirmations, I'll give you an example where students are asked in some of the early research,
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these were seventh graders in an integrated classroom again, and the teacher asked them to take,
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just take 15 minutes and write to me a little essay about the things
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that are most important to you and the people that are most important in your life.
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So students do that.
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And for the white students in the classroom, you know, it doesn't hurt, doesn't, doesn't particularly help them.
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But for the African American students in the classroom, it has a dramatic effect because it gives that student a chance to,
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to tell the teacher that they're more than that stereotype.
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It sounds like a funny, easy thing to do, but it has a very transformative effects on their grades.
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The student who gets to write this essay, their grades go up a bit.
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And then because their grades go up a bit, they feel a little less vulnerable to that stereotype.
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And feeling a little less vulnerable to that stereotype, their grades go up even more.
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So there's a kind of recursive chain of events,
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relief of this pressure, they come to understand themselves in relation to the setting they're in in a different way.
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It sets them on a different trajectory,
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which gives us both a sense of how powerful this thing can be and when it's unattended to how powerful it is.
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What's amazing about that intervention is that it is quite simple.
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It's simple.
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And that it has such a profound in the moment, but long tail impact.
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I wonder if the advice is, if you are somebody who feels different in some way, either based on who you are,
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your gender, your race, maybe you have an accent, maybe you're newer to the team, you're an older person.
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It might make sense to share in ways
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that you feel comfortable about yourself with those around you to help them see you outside of those stereotypes.
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Yeah, no, I think it is i think that's you know another strategy is building relationships
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and focusing on on on building personal connections with each other
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because once you get a bond like
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that the beginnings of a friendship bond right you feel less likely it's less likely
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that person is going to see you in terms of stereotypes it would not completely wipe out
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that concern altogether but it's going to substantially reduce it
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and enable the person in in a situation like schooling to
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allocate their attention a lot more to the work at hand than to these anxieties
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so it can start to have an effect i appreciate you sharing
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that and and i want to turn to to your new book
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and your work on churn can you define for us what you mean by churn
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and how can it help us better understand relationships
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and intergroup relationships churn is really that it's sort of
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that concern in a diverse setting where there are different kinds of people from different kinds of backgrounds different identities
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and the like the concern in that setting that somehow or another i could be
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devalued based on my identity devalued treated differently seen with different expectations
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that i could worry about those things whereas
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if i were in a situation that was more homogeneous identity-wise
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if it's just us old guys at pete's early in the
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morning talking about things i feel you know pretty comfortable the diversity itself
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when the situation is important if if you're just riding a bus
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or just watching you're just in a basketball game crowd
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or something no but it's not an issue but
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when you're in a situation where it's important to you
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and it's important to your life outcomes then diversity can have this by raising this possibility
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that you could be seen in terms of sort of out groups
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if i can call it
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that out group stereotypes about your group right it can be tense
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and so churn is just the the term i i came up with to capture
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that sort of psychological state of of anxiety
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and vigilance is to you know i have to stay alert it's a tension between remembering
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and forgetting should i remember how my group can be seen
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and use that to interpret what's happening to me in this situation
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or can i just forget that and relax and trust this situation
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I really like that definition of the tension between anxiety and forgetting.
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Yeah.
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And, and the churn is really what's going on in your head.
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It's vigilance and it's rumination too.
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There's rumination.
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At the same time, it's all of
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that together i want to dive deeper onto uh ways to to reduce the stress
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that churn has and you you've alluded to the fact
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that trust building plays a factor in
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that can you give us an example a real world example
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that some of our listeners and their workplaces might uh encounter
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that that could help reduce some of the churn for for some of the people in those groups?
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Yeah, I can illustrate it best, but with an experimental finding led by Jeff Cohen
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and Lee Ross and I did this together and we were just interested in a basic question.
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How does a professor give critical feedback to say an African-American student and have that feedback be trusted?
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How do you do that?
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And so we had them write an essay about their favorite teacher.
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We brought Stanford students, black and white, into the laboratory and asked them to write this essay about their favorite teacher.
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And if it was good, we'd publish it in a new magazine we were starting on teaching.
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That was the ruse.
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And we told them if they come back in two days, we're gonna give them the feedback on that essay.
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And they do come back in two days and we give them the feedback.
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And our big question is how much do they trust this feedback?
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And what we vary is how we give the feedback.
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And what we found was expected, nonetheless unsettling in the first two conditions of this experiment
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when we gave the feedback straightforwardly here's feedback on your essay
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or we gave it with a real positive as bromide kind
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of compliment up front uh gee you bring a lot of great energy to my class
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and here's the feedback right white students trusted it and black students were very mistrusting of that
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and you'd wonder well look they're stanford students they're privileged why
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why wouldn't they trust this feedback in this institution that's seems
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so committed to their welfare and so on
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but from their standpoint this this ambiguity comes up again
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if you look
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if you put yourself in their shoes you don't know whether the feedback for sure is based on your essay
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or from your the the feedback givers opinions views stereotypes about your group's abilities you don't know for sure
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and you You have to have to remain a bit in churn.
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So the third condition gets to the question you ask, which is a demonstration of how you can get rid of it.
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In that condition, very heartening, the feedback giver says, look, we use high standards here because we only publish these essays.
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And I've looked at your essay and I think you can meet those standards.
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When it was put that way, black students' motivations just went off the charts three times more of them in
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that condition took the essay home to improve it used the
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feedback to improve the essay as as participants in any other condition of the experiment
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so they they trusted it wildly and you know
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when you think about it
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that kind of feedback from an authority who says uh you know we use high standards
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and i think you can meet them that
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that kind of feedback can be very powerful transformative to most of us can launch us on a career path
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if we get that at the right the right time
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but i think that illustrates uh uh one of the critical dimensions of cutting through this churn
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and this this sense of threat that diversity can pose to us uh it says basically
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there there may be a stereotype out there about your group's abilities okay it doesn't say this explicitly
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but the implication is that may be true
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but i respect your abilities i respect you and i respect your abilities
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and it's conveyed to you by me having high expectations for you having looked at your work
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and having you know see some promise some potential in it
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that is a central strategy is is the
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when we deal with people from different backgrounds
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and the like it's critical to to uh signal respect one
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phrase i i use in the book is to be able to see uh full humanity
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and full potential indifference if we can adjust our our perception
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if we can just give a a little signal uh then then it's it's very powerful
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and it can be transformative uh in the sense of enabling a relationship
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and reducing the pressure that person might feel the ability to to establish that there are criteria on which you are making,
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in this case, decisions, giving feedback, I think is good hygiene for any communication.
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This has been a great conversation, Claude.
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Thank you so much.
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And before we end, as you well know, I asked three questions, what I'm going to make up just for you, and two I've been asking people for a long time.
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Are you up for that?
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I'm up for it.
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You have held several leadership positions in very large organizations.
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what are one or two skills
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that you have found have been most helpful for you in those leadership roles to be successful
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if we make a mistake in society maybe coming from our commitment to color blindness it's
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that we we think we don't have to deal with that
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that that we that that we can just assume that trust
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and i i think uh the realities of our society and life uh suggest the contrary that no,
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you have to respect that and you have to build
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that trust and understand that that's kind of what people need at some level, maybe guided a bit by, or more than just a little bit by this research um
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and just and just watching a really effective leaders they they had a knack at
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that and they and the beloved leader is a leader
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that uh people trust even though that you know they're going to disagree with
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that person or they're going to not like what they have to do as directed by
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that person but but uh if if they have a sense
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that that person respects their humanity and their potential uh they roll with things
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a lot of what you have shared with us is about demonstrating
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that we see other people yeah we're and
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that we're there for them yeah question number two who is a communicator
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that you admire
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and why i have to say a barack obama for a
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guy like uh named barack hussein obama to be elected president of the United States,
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he's got to have that ability to give people a sense that he respects them, that he's not going to be polarized against them in some way
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or reflexively against them or with resentment toward them and all the things that they could be churning about,
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his style and language is a remedy to.
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So as a figure, I wish we would take his style much more seriously
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and understand that the significance of it it has the capacity to to get to people
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and make them feel uh seen and
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and connected to each other in terms of their humanity first
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and their identity second and that that's a really nice knack
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that he has i like that humanity first identity second yeah our final question
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what are the first three ingredients
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that go into a successful communication recipe the first thing is is recognizing
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that all people have this need right in the book i talk about the power differences um is
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that the teacher is more powerful than the student
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so who should go first in terms of being wise well
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probably the teacher it's going to be harder for the students uh to to expose themselves like like
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that with trusting them without some evidence that it's safe to do
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that so i i do think that's a a
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that tone uh is is to me in communication uh as both as a within academic life
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but as an administrator
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that tone is important in a in a diverse society in
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a way a lot of people you know they need some evidence
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that you're going to be sensitive to that you're going to see them
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and see their needs that's why they need some as a first ingredient indication that you're aware of what's at stake here,
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and you care about that.
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I'm a big fanatic about clarity, or I try to be a big fanatic about clarity.
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I pay a lot of attention to the way sentences are written and so on and how things are conveyed, because when they're not or they're frustrating,
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it can really defeat a valuable message.
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So clarity, just simple clarity.
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Try to be really direct and clear about things.
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And then third, I personally appreciate some warmth and evidence of beneficence.
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Yeah.
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I think people need to know that you're a human being in order to trust you.
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And so I think of that as a really important thing to convey, too, that you can disappoint people with decisions that you have to make.
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And you have to do that if you're in an administrative position obviously all the time.
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They would like to have some evidence that you're a good person
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and that you in general would want to be as helpful as you possibly can under these circumstances.
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So evidence of beneficence and real beneficence, really being concerned about people, I think is a third thing I'd point to.
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Those listening know I like alliteration a lot.
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So I'm going to take a little liberty with what you said, but it's about connection, that tone, that recognizing there's a connection.
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It's about clarity.
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And then it's about caring and demonstrating concern.
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And when you do those things, you can really see somebody and you can demonstrate trust and respect.
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Claude, this was a wonderful conversation.
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Thank you.
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You shed light on some things that I think are really important for us to talk about and had some direct,
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very specific ways that we can address some of these issues around churn and stereotype threat.
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Thank you for your time.
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Well, thanks for the opportunity.
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I much enjoyed it.
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Thank you for joining us for another episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.
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It was great learning from Claude.
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Really understanding the stereotype threat implications and about churn can help all of us to trust and respect others.
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And this can really help us
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if we take the time to think about how we give feedback and how we orient people to our organizations
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and to our teens.
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To learn more about how to set expectations and how they shape our world, check out episode 40 with Aaliyah Crump.
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This episode was produced by Catherine Reed, Alex McCarthy, Ryan Campos, and me, Matt Abrahams.
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Our music is from Floyd Wonder, with special thanks to Podium Podcast Company.
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Este vídeo tiene 287 frases y 3738 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 22:28. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 166 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 84 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.
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15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| feedback sustantivo | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | valoración, comentario |
| essay sustantivo | /ˈɛs.eɪ/ | ensayo, redacción |
| clarity sustantivo | /ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ti/ | claridad |
| humanity sustantivo | /hjuˈmænɪti/ | humanidad |
| demonstrate verbo | /ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/ | demostrar, demonstrar |
| classroom sustantivo | /ˈklɑːsɹʊm/ | aula, sala de clases |
| tone sustantivo | /ˈtəʊn/ | tono |
| anxiety sustantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | zozobra, ansiedad |
| diversity sustantivo | /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/ | diversidad |
| diverse adjetivo | /daɪˈvɜːs/ | diverso |
| tension sustantivo | /ˈtɛnʃən/ | tensión |
| podcast sustantivo | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, pódcast |
| expectation sustantivo | /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ | expectación |
| convey verbo | /kənˈveɪ/ | trasladar, transladar |
| curious adjetivo | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | curioso, tener curiosidad |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| go up verbo | subir | |
| check out verbo | investigar, chequear | |
| look forward to verbo | no ver la hora de, quedar a la espera de | |
| come up verbo | salir a relucir | |
| come up with verbo | ingeniar, ingeniarse | |
| go off verbo | explotar | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | reponer, suplir |
| wipe out verbo | aniquilar, exterminar |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | have been · I've been · has been done |
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is widely recognized · could be judged · are dated |
| Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa | people that are · student who gets · somebody who feels |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 62 contracciones y formas reducidas, como you're, I'm, they're. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: seventh /ˈsɛvənθ/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, nonetheless /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, intervention /ɪntɚˈvɛnʃən/, publish /ˈpʌblɪʃ/, implication /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, diversity /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como feedback, essay, clarity.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.