Although the fact that stereotype threat impacts performance is well established, the underlying process(es) is(are) not clear. Recently, T. Schmader and M. Johns (2003) argued for a working memory interference account, which proposes that performance suffers because cognitive resources are expended on processing information associated with negative stereotypes. The antisaccade task provides a ...

Zell and Alicke (2009) have shown that comparisons with a few people have a stronger influence on self-evaluations than comparisons with larger samples. One explanation for this effect is that people readily categorize their standing in small groups as "good" or "bad," which supersedes large-sample data. To test this explanation, we created a situation in which students learned that their perfo...

Per Schelling’s model of Segregation, the population will innately segregate itself based on preferences, often leading to organization by race and class. This subdividing of communities through segregation increases social tension, discourages communication, and isolates those who are different. In 1968, Robert Zajonc proved that subjects rated a familiar stimulus more positively than similar ...

Tracing why a “faulty” fact A is in the model M = P (I) of program P on input I quickly gets tedious, even for small examples. We propose a simple method for debugging and “logically profiling” P by generating a provenance-enriched rewriting P̂ , which records rule firings according to the logical semantics. The resulting provenance graph can be easily queried and analyzed using a set of predefi...