When black students reflected on the idea that everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity, initially struggles to adjust to college, their academic performance and longer-term well-being benefited, according to a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science.
Psychologists at Stanford University enrolled 92 second-semester freshmen at an unidentified selective college in their study. The researchers divided them into two groups, each comprised of about half black students and half white students. One group participated in an hourlong session stressing that social adversity in the transition to college is common and short-lived. The other focused not on belonging but general social and political attitudes.
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