JEL classification: C92 J15 Using a laboratory experiment, we find evidence consistent with statistical discrimination in a public good and group formation game. In the game, payoff relevant information is presented to subjects, thereby making it costly to discriminate when choosing group members. We find that behavior is correlated with race and people use race to predict behavior. However, ra...

that it is a misinterpretation of the Steele and Aronson (1995) results to conclude that eliminating stereotype threat eliminates the African American–White test-score gap. They agree that we have identified multiple mischaracterizations of their work in media reports, journal articles, and textbooks, which wrongly interpret their work as finding that eliminating stereotype threat did indeed el...

The sliding mode control technique has long been recognized as a powerful tool to counteract matched disturbances. In the paper under discussion, the authors make a step beyond this and demonstrate that a certain degree of robustness pertains against mismatched uncertainties as well. A good job is done at specifying a class of mismatched disturbances (see Assumptions 1–5) and proving Theorem 3,...

In two experiments, we found that the performance-inhibiting consequences of stereotype threat were eliminated when the threat was subtly reframed as a challenge. In Experiment 1, Black school children in North Carolina completed a 10-itemmathematics test. Participants who reported their race before taking the test performed more poorly than participants who reported their race after completing...

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Stereotype threat occurs when stereotyped groups perform worse as their group membership is highlighted. We investigated whether stereotype threat is affected by accounts for the origins of stereotypes. In two studies, women who read of genetic causes of sex differences performed worse on math tests than those who read of experiential causes.

We address the problem of providing a logical characterization of reasoning based on stereotypes. Following [6] we take a semantic perspective and we base our model on a notion of semantic distance. While still leading to cumulative reasoning, our notion of distance does, unlike Lehmann’s, allow reasoning under inconsistent information.