DO NOT BECOME A BURDEN: ACTIVATION AND DISENGAGEMENT PRESCRIPTIVE AGE STEREOTYPES

A Review and Meta-Analysis of Age-Based Stereotype Threat: Negative Stereotypes, Not Facts, Do the Damage

Stereotype threat effects arise when an individual feels at risk of confirming a negative stereotype about their group and consequently underperforms on stereotype relevant tasks (Steele, 2010). Among older people, underperformance across cognitive and physical tasks is hypothesized to result from age-based stereotype threat (ABST) because of negative age-stereotypes regarding older adults' com...

Prescriptive stereotypes and workplace consequences for East Asians in North America.

We pursue the idea that racial stereotypes are not only descriptive, reflecting beliefs about how racial groups actually differ, but are prescriptive as well, reflecting beliefs about how racial groups should differ. Drawing on an analysis of the historic and current status of East Asians in North America, we study descriptive and prescriptive stereotypes of East Asians along the dimensions of ...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

The Role of Descriptive and Prescriptive Gender Stereotypes in Performance Expectations of Female Leaders

The relationship between descriptive and prescriptive gender stereotypes and the performance expectations placed on female leaders was explored. Descriptive and prescriptive agency stereotypes were found to interact with leadership style, suggesting that prescriptive stereotypes might lead to bias against women by affecting performance expectations. This finding calls assumptions underlying the...

When Do Instructional Features Become a Distraction?

Would adding instructional elements to minimalist-based instruction increase the rate and retention of learning? Logically, it might be expected that providing learners with additional instructional aids would result in increased learning. Conversely, I found that the additional instructional features actually distracted the learner from the critical instruction, but not significantly. Furtherm...