26: Celebrating Smart Girls in the 21st Century

The Psychology Podcast

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Social Sciences, Science

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Distinguished Professor Barbara Kerr, Ph.D. is a wellspring of knowledge on creativity, giftedness and optimal experience in the 21st century. This episode is a treasure trove of insight into the unique socio-cultural challenges, life-trajectories and opportunities of smart and talented young girls and women. The topic is near and dear to our hearts here at The Psychology Podcast, as we discuss an extraordinary amount of research ranging across topics such as grit, personality profiles, gender roles, stereotype threat, self-perception, differing conceptualizations of intelligence and how falling in love with a future image of yourself can predict creative success. Be sure to check out Barbara's research and philosophy of Smart Girls in the 21st Century and enjoy the show! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-psychology-podcast/support

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr Scott Barry Kaufman where we give
0:04.6	you insights into the mind brain behavior and creativity.
0:08.3	Each episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world
0:14.2	we live in.
0:15.2	Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Oh, I'm so excited to have Barbara Kerr on the podcast today, a distinguished professor at the University of Kansas and
0:41.3	author of the book Smart Girls in the 21st Century,
0:44.8	Understanding talented girls and women, co-authored with Robin McKay.
0:49.2	Barbara, it's so awesome to be able to talk to you today.
0:52.4	I'm really glad to talk to you today.
0:53.4	I'm really glad to talk to you.
0:55.4	It's not often that I get to talk about my book
0:57.9	with the author of one of my favorite books.
1:00.3	So you make me blush.
1:04.0	Oh gosh.
1:05.0	I was wondering, why did you write this book?
1:08.0	I mean, there's a long history of this book, right?
1:10.0	This is the second edition.
1:12.0	So... Oh, my goodness, if not is the second edition. So, oh goodness, it's not even the second edition.
1:15.0	It's actually a completely new book. There were three editions of the first book and it was just kept in print for 20 years and so you
1:28.9	know with revisions but this is entirely new every single word but you want to know the history right? Yeah. So it started with my being selected to be a kid going to a special school for gifted kids during the Sputnik era.
1:49.8	We were told that we were the leaders of tomorrow.
1:53.2	In fact, our teacher told us that the Russians and Chinese
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