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PEOPLE WHO FEEL THEY deserve success are among those most likely to fail when challenges arise, research from New Zealand has revealed.
The study focused on university students and found that those who felt entitled to good grades were more likely to bomb out on a tough exam.
"People who believe that they don’t need to work for good grades – that they are just entitled to them by right – are annoying, but there wasn’t any evidence before now that it’s actually a self-destructive strategy," says study co-author Professor Jamin Halberstadt, at the University of Ontago in New Zealand.
It's strange how what all of us know often doesn't get studied because it's so obvious. It's also strange that knowing this doesn't help in any way. "Stop feeling entitled, it will lower your grades" won't work. I already point them to a study that shows that cheating on assignments throughout the semester lowers grades. We give them all sorts of other helpful advice that they ignore.
So I guess this study really just makes me more miserable.
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I suspect that the guiltiest of our students do not know what "entitled" means, and even if they did they probably would NEVER apply it to themselves. I have also begun to suspect that many students don't know the definition of "academic dishonesty" ... they probably think it means an academic (a professor!) being dishonest!
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