Stereotype threat
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Stereotype threat
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- Work cat.: Jordt, H.L. Of E. coli and classrooms, 2019:p. 2 (stereotype threat) pp. 4-5 (students who feel at risk of upholding stereotypes or being judged based on stereotypes (termed stereotype threat) experience lower academic performance; stereotype threat has been shown to impact college level course performance; stereotype threat can have long-term impacts, such as students distancing themselves from a discipline they once identified with)
- Stereotype threat widens achievement gap, via American Psychological Association website, May 27, 2020(negative stereotypes raise inhibiting doubts and high-pressure anxieties in a test-taker's mind, resulting in the phenomenon of "stereotype threat"; group stereotypes can threaten how students evaluate themselves, which then alters academic identity and intellectual performance)
- The glossary of education reform, via WWW, May 27, 2020(Stereotype threat refers to the risk of confirming negative stereotypes about an individual's racial, ethnic, gender, or cultural group. The term was coined by the researchers Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson, who performed experiments that showed that black college students performed worse on standardized tests than their white peers when they were reminded, before taking the tests, that their racial group tends to do poorly on such exams. When their race was not emphasized, however, black students performed similarly to their white peers)
- APA dictionary of psychology, 2015(stereotype threat: an individual's expectation that negative stereotypes about his or her member group will adversely influence others' judgments of his or her performance and that a poor performance will reflect badly on the member group. This expectation may undermine the individual's actual ability to perform well. In an academic setting, for example, it has been shown that African American students' performance in tests of intellectual ability can suffer because of anxiety induced by thinking that they are expected to perform poorly and will be judged according to negative stereotypes about Black intelligence)
- Stroessner, S. Stereotype threat: an overview, 2008?, via WWW, May 27, 2020(Stereotype threat refers to being at risk of confirming, as a self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one's social group; the conditions that produce stereotype threat are ones in which a highlighted stereotype implicates the self though association with a relevant social category; stereotype threat can harm the academic performance of any individual for whom the situation invokes a stereotype-based expectation of poor performance; Stereotype threat effects have been shown with a wide range of social groups and stereotypes including, but not limited to: women in math; Whites with regard to appearing racist; students from low socioeconomic backgrounds compared to students from high socioeconomic backgrounds on intellectual tasks; men compared with women on social sensitivity; Whites compared with Asian men in mathematics; Whites compared with Blacks and Hispanics on tasks assumed to reflect natural sports ability; young girls whose gender has been highlighted before completing a math task; consequences of stereotype threat: Decreased performance in academic and non-academic domains, increased use of self-defeating behaviors, disengagement, and altered professional aspirations are just a few potential outcomes)
- National Institutes of Health Scientific Workforce Diversity Office website, May 27, 2020:Sociocultural factors > Stereotype threat (Stereotype threat is defined as a "socially premised psychological threat that arises when one is in a situation or doing something for which a negative stereotype about one's group applies" (Steele & Aronson, 1995). According to stereotype threat, members of a marginalized group acknowledge that a negative stereotype exists in reference to their group, and they demonstrate apprehension about confirming the negative stereotype by engaging in particular activities)
- Leadership Glossary: Essential Terms for the 21st Century, accessed via Credo Reference, July 14, 2020(Stereotype threat: One of the most intensely researched phenomena in social psychology, stereotype threat is the feeling an individual has that he faces the risk of confirming one or more negative stereotypes about a group of which he is a member. Performance-related stereotypes can result in poor performance precisely because the individual is undermined by the worry that his performance will not be good enough to overcome the stereotype)
- Oxford Reference, accessed July 14, 2020(stereotype threat: Impairment of performance resulting from perceived likelihood of being judged according to a negative stereotype, or fear of acting in a manner likely to confirm the negative stereotype)