As someone who studied psychology before coming to tech, this phenomenon is fairly well documented. If you want, you can have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.

As someone who studied psychology before coming to tech, this phenomenon is fairly well documented. If you want, you can have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat I think it matches up well with what was discussed in this blog post.