Retraining attitudes and stereotypes to affect motivation and cognitive capacity under stereotype threat.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Retraining Attitudes and Stereotypes to Affect Motivation and Cognitive Capacity Under Stereotype Threat

LESSONS LEARNED FROM A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: HOW RETRAINING IMPLICIT ATTITUDES AND STEREOTYPES AFFECTS MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE UNDER STEREOTYPE THREAT by

While evidence suggests stereotype threat effects invade conscious levels of processing, less is known about the role that implicit processes play in stereotype threat. Results from four studies indicate that implicit attitudes and stereotypes play a unique role in motivation and performance in stereotype threatening contexts. Women trained to have positive implicit math attitudes exhibited inc...

How Stereotypes Stifle Performance Potential

In academic and organizational domains, performance measures are often used to assess achievement or aptitude. When certain groups of people systematically underperform on such measures, a common interpretation is that the groups differ in inherent ability. However, social psychological research over the past 15 years has documented a phenomenon called stereotype threat whereby subtle situation...

Threatening the heart and mind of gender stereotypes: Can imagined contact influence the physiology of stereotype threat?

Research shows that when a gender stereotype is made salient and the target of the stereotype is asked to perform in the stereotyped domain, targets of the stereotype often perform at a lower level compared to situations when the stereotype was not made salient. The noticeable absence of female faculty and students in math and science departments at coed universities throughout the United State...

Gender-Stereotyping and Cognitive Sex Differences in Mixed- and Same-Sex Groups

Sex differences in specific cognitive abilities are well documented, but the biological, psychological, and sociocultural interactions that may underlie these differences are largely unknown. We examined within a biopsychosocial approach how gender stereotypes affect cognitive sex differences when adult participants were tested in mixed- or same-sex groups. A total of 136 participants (70 women...