Self-Affirmation Theory will single-handedly undermine my whole project
oh fuck me
"It may do more harm than good to provide academically at-risk students with affirmations of their academic ability. . . Instead, the more effective strategy is the counterintuitive one- that of affirming domains unrelated to the threat."
They mean it in reference to cognitive dissonance issues, but that's probably the worst sentence I've ever read.
"It may do more harm than good to provide academically at-risk students with affirmations of their academic ability. . . Instead, the more effective strategy is the counterintuitive one- that of affirming domains unrelated to the threat."
They mean it in reference to cognitive dissonance issues, but that's probably the worst sentence I've ever read.