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Perpetuating Success Or Sliding Into Decline Is The Result Of Many Intersecting Forces That Reinforce One Another Directly And Indirectly. They Are Both Cause And Effect Of Winning Or Losing. Winning Generates Positive Forces, Losing Generates Negative Forces.

The Importance Of Discretion Increases With Closeness To The Top Of A Hierarchical Organization.

A Self-reinforcing Upward Spiral: Performance Stimulating Pride Stimulating Performance.

Confidence Makes You Willing To Try Harder And Attracts The Kind Of Support From Others That Makes "winning" Possible.

Even The New Feminist Research On Sex-role Socialization And Sex Differences Has Sometimes Had The Unfortunate Consequence Of Creating A New Set Of Stereotypes About What Women Feel And How Women Behave. Despite The Large Amount Of Overlap Between The Sexes In Most Research, The Tendency To Label And Polarize And Thus To Exaggerate Differences Remains In Much Reporting Of Data, Which May, For Example, Report The Mean Scores Of Male And Female Populations But Not The Degree Of Overlap.