Rick and Tipsters,
I had heard of this somewhere, myself, but don't know of any research done
on it. There may be some work done on it in the I/O field related to
dressing up to increase one's confidence...
However, without much empirical support, I adopted this technique in grad
school under the "couldn't hurt" philosophy, and it all seemed to go quite
well...
Esther
At 12:06 PM 10/24/00 -0500, Rick Froman wrote:
>I had never heard of this before one of my students mentioned it on a class
>e-mail list. Has anyone heard of this or know if there has been research
>done on it?
>
>Rick
>Dr. Richard L. Froman
>Psychology Department
>John Brown University
>Siloam Springs, AR 72761
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.jbu.edu/sbs/psych/froman.htm
>
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>Subject: GENPSY-L: dressing for tests
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>i have heard from a lot of people that people make better test scores when
>they dress up for a test instead of wearing their normal clothes or just
>throwing something on. does the way a person dresses really affect the
>score they make on a test at all? why would this be?
