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Making Up People : The Effect of Identity on Preferences and Performance in a Modernizing Society

It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional caste...

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Main Authors:	Hoff, Karla, Pandey, Priyanka
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	ACHIEVEMENT AMBITION ANALOGY ANTHROPOLOGY APTITUDE TESTS ARGUMENTS ASIAN-AMERICAN ASIAN-AMERICANS ATROCITIES ATTENTION BELIEF SYSTEMS BELIEFS BLACK BOUNDARIES BOUNDARY BRAIN CASTE SYSTEM CASTES CHILDHOOD COGNITION COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COMPETITORS CONFORMITY CONSCIOUSNESS CREATION DATA COLLECTION DISCRIMINATION DISCUSSION DISCUSSIONS DOMAINS DOMINANT GROUP DRAWING EARLY CHILDHOOD ECONOMIC DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC INQUIRY EMOTIONS EQUALITY ESSAY ETIQUETTE FEELINGS GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GROUP MEMBERSHIP HUMAN CAPITAL IDEA IDEAS IDENTITIES IDENTITY IMMIGRANTS INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS INDIVIDUALITY INHIBITION INTELLIGENCE LEARNING LIFE CHANCES LITERATURE LOVE MOBILITY NORMS PARENTS PERSONALITY PLAYS POPULAR CULTURE POWER PREJUDICE PRIMING PRODUCTIVITY PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC SERVICES RACE RECALL RITUALS SCRIPT SEGREGATION SELF-CONCEPT SELF-CONFIDENCE SOCIAL CATEGORIES SOCIAL CATEGORY SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL CLASS SOCIAL GROUP SOCIAL IDENTITIES SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL ORDER SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIETIES SOCIOLOGY SYMBOLS TELEVISION TRAITS VIOLENCE WORKING MEMORY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/10/16816808/making-up-people-effect-identity-preferences-performance-modernizing-society http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12068