Stereotype Threat: Are Lower Status and History of Stigmatization Preconditions of Stereotype Threat?
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This research extended stereotype-threat effects outside of the academic domain and to a nonstigmatized group. Female and male students performed three decision tasks: lexical, valence, and affective processing. Half of the participants were told that, in general, men are poorer performers than are women in affective processing tasks. No differences between conditions were observed for the lexical and valence tasks. By contrast, for the affective task, threatened men made significantly more errors than did participants in the other three conditions. More precisely, threatened men tended to accept as affective words that were not affective. This latter result suggests that threatened men decreased their threshold for affectivity “to prove” the inapplicability of the stereotype to themselves. Moreover, stereotype endorsement did not mediate the results. Identification with the affective domain, on the other hand, moderated the effect of stereotype threat. Discussion considers the consequences of these findings for everyday interactions.
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Research that creates new groups in the laboratory has found that merely being made aware that there is a negative stereotype about your group's ability can cause social identity threat and identity incompatibility perceptions and thus reduce performance on relevant tasks.
“Furthermore, research that creates new groups in the laboratory has found that merely being made aware that there is a negative stereotype about your group's ability can cause social identity threat and identity incompatibility perceptions and thus reduce performance on relevant tasks (Leyens, Desert, Croizet, & Darcis, 2000;Steele, 1997).”
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Stereotype threat has been induced among men on emotional processing tasks by informing them that they have historically performed worse than women on those tasks.
“and among men on emotional processing (but not other) tasks by merely informing them that they have historically performed worse than women on those tasks (Leyens et al., 2000).”
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- Authors
- Leyens, J.-P., Désert, M., Croizet, J.-C., & Darcis, C.
- Affiliations
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 1189-1199
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2116334310
- Cited by
- 243
- References
- 3
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- FWCI
- 36.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
- Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Power and Status Dynamics
- Keywords
- stereotype threat, gender stereotypes, emotional processing, lexical decision, valence judgment, stereotype endorsement, gender differences
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