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From Stereotype Threat to Stereotype Threats: Implications of a Multi-Threat Framework for Causes, Moderators, Mediators, Consequences, and Interventions

Shapiro, Jenessa R., Neuberg, Steven L.·2007·Personality and Social Psychology Review

Abstract

More than 100 articles have examined the construct of stereotype threat and its implications. However, stereotype threat seems to mean different things to different researchers and has been employed to describe and explain processes and phenomena that appear to be fundamentally distinct. Complementing existing models, the authors posit a Multi-Threat Framework in which six qualitatively distinct stereotype threats arise from the intersection of two dimensions—the target of the threat (the self/one's group) and the source of the threat (the self/outgroup others/ingroup others). The authors propose that these threats constitute the core of the broader stereotype threat construct and provide the foundation for understanding additional, as of yet uncharacterized, stereotype threats. The proposed threats likely differentially peril those with different stigmatizable characteristics, have different eliciting conditions and moderators, are mediated by somewhat different processes, are coped with and compensated for in different ways, and require different interventions to overcome.

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  • Experiencing threats to one's identity can have wide-ranging and meaningful effects beyond academic underperformance.

    “Indeed, experiencing threats to one's identity can have wide-ranging and meaningful effects beyond the most studied outcome of academic underperformance.As Shapiro and Neuberg (2007) argue,”

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Authors
Shapiro, J. R., & Neuberg, S. L.
Affiliations
Arizona State University (US)
Corresponding author
Neuberg, Steven L.
Venue
Personality and Social Psychology Review
Published
2007-05
Volume
11
Issue
2
Pages
107-130
ISSN
  • 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
  • 1532-7957
OpenAlex
W2003398631
Cited by
398
References
84
Citations by year
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FWCI
48.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Personality and Social Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5f31mh075497-02)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (F31-MH075497)
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 › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Keywords
stereotype threat, threat sources, in-group and out-group, stigmatization, moderators, mediators, coping, intervention
MeSH terms
Affect, Attitude, Humans, Social Behavior, Stereotyping, Negotiating

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