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"    Photo: Getty Images Women don&amp;#039;t like to commend themselves in the workplace. At least that&amp;#039;s what a new study by Montana State University and published in Psychology of Women Quarterly contends. To drive their thesis home, researchers had women write personal essays under the guise of competition. However, to explain away the discomfort subjects might feel while writing in the first person, a black box\u2014a &amp;quot;subliminal noise generator&amp;quot;\u2014was placed in the room. When they believed their unease was the result of a mitigating party, women were able to pen more compelling essays about themselves. (Spoiler alert: There is no such thing as a &amp;quot;subliminal noise generator.&amp;quot;) Related: Workbook: Chatting Office-Friendly Separates and Hipsterness With Kim Stolz Regardless, not everyone agrees with the suggestion that we downplay our capabilities at work. Former America&amp;#039;s Next Top Model contestant Kim Stolz and current vice president of equity derivatives at Citigroup suggests that this particular focus group was a bunch of slackers. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think I act any differently than the men I work with. I am just as ambitious, just as competitive, and just as vocal about the things that I should be vocal about,&amp;quot; she said at today&amp;#039;s luncheon for her forthcoming book, Unfriending My Ex: And Other Things I&amp;#039;ll Never Do. &amp;quot;Successful people own what they do. They are the first people to say, &amp;#039;That was my idea.&amp;#039; If you&amp;#039;re truly a successful person, you feel pride in that and you want to own it. If you&amp;#039;re someone who&amp;#039;s undermining your own accomplishments, how do you expect to be successful? You most likely are not going to be.&amp;quot; Related: The Scarlet A My first impulse is to nominate Kim for President but then I like, totally second guess myself. Nevermind. Kim, who? Leave me alone. What do the men think?! They&amp;#039;re so much better at this stuff than me. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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