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How Labels Can Affect People’s Personalities And Potential

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What is it that makes you…you? NPR’s Shankar Vedantam explores new research that suggests the labels we use to categorize people affect not just who they are now, but who they’ll be in the future. A person’s personality and potential can be tricky things to pinpoint and measure. On today’s Morning Edition, NPR’s Shankar Vedantam looked at the world of personality testing and what these tests can and cannot tell us about ourselves. And now he explores new research that asks another question – can the ways we categorize people affect not just who they are now, but who they’ll become in the future? To read more from SHANKAR VEDANTAM, click here.