Stereotype threat occurs when negative stereotypes about group performance on a particular task are made salient, thereby negatively affecting group member performance. Specifically, research has demonstrated that stereotype-threatened women underperform on tests of mathematical ability (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999). A possibility for reducing stereotype threat in women was explored by havin...

This experiment examined the eVects of implicit gender-math stereotyping and implicit gender and math identiWcation on women’s math performance under stereotype threat and reduced threat conditions. Results showed that of the three, only implicit gender-math stereotyping moderated stereotype threat eVects on women’s math performance: women who showed less implicit math-gender stereotyping showe...

The article deals with Hurka?s critique of Kymlicka and Arneson?s Dworkin on endorsement constraint thesis, according to which a person cannot have valuable life if values are imposed her - primarily by state action overriding preferences convictions the good life. This thesis has often been identified neutral liberalism counterposed perfectionism. text argues against argument that mild coercio...

The expression of one’s opinion through endorsement is one of the simplest methods of democratic participation. The result of an endorsement can be used to evaluate whether a certain subject should deserve a higher attention. In some cases, the endorsers desire privacy protection. However, conventional paper-based endorsement systems provide neither convenience nor well privacy protection for t...

“Jungle Fever” is a stereotype that individuals who enter interracial relationships out of a desire to experience sex with someone of a different race. This research is an initial attempt to gather empirical evidence that address this stereotype. Analysis of the sexual attitudes of never married/cohabited individuals in the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey find little support for thi...

Older individuals assimilate, and are targeted by, contradictory positive and negative age stereotypes. It was unknown whether the influence of stereotype valence is stronger when the stereotype content corresponds to the outcome domain. We randomly assigned older individuals to either positive-cognitive, negative-cognitive, positive-physical, or negative-physical subliminal-age-stereotype grou...