Andrei Cimpian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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Andrei Cimpian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois psychology professor Andrei Cimpian and his colleagues found that the expectation that one must be brilliant to succeed in certain academic fields was associated with the underrepresentation of women in those fields.

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