Marie Uherek's List: Social Psychology

• • factors such as the strength of one’s group identification or domain identification have been shown to be related to ones’ subsequent vulnerability to stereotype threat

  • Long-term effects of stereotype threat might contribute to educational and social inequality
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  • • Extends beyond under-achievement on academic tasks 

    • Performance in academic contexts can be harmed by the awareness that one's behavior might be viewed through the lens of racial stereotypes
• Stereotype threat refers to being at risk of   confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative   stereotype about one's group 
• Black college freshmen and sophomores   performed more poorly on standardized tests than White   students when their race was emphasized.
• can lead to self-handicapping strategies,   such as reduced practice time for a task
• educed sense of belonging to   the stereotyped domain
• consistent   exposure to stereotype threat
• can reduce the degree that individuals value the   domain in question
• ead students   to choose not to pursue the domain of study and,   consequently, limit the range of professions that they   can pursue.
• white men in sports
• women in negotiation
• homosexual men in providing childcare
• women in driving
• stereotype threat can harm the academic performance of      any   individual for whom the situation invokes a   stereotype-based expectation of poor performance.
• academic performance of Hispanics
• tudents from low socioeconomic backgrounds
• females in math
• white males when faced with the specter of   Asian superiority in math

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