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stereotype threat: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

The risk of underperforming because one fears confirming a negative stereotype about one's group

Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson introduced stereotype threat in 1995 to name the predicament a person can face when a negative stereotype exists about a group they belong to: in a situation where that stereotype could apply, the concern about confirming it, or being judged by it, can itself depress the person's performance. In their experiments, Black students scored lower than White students on a difficult verbal test when it was described as diagnostic of ability, but the gap shrank when the same test was framed as a non-evaluative problem-solving task, indicating the framing of the situation rather than the test alone shaped the result. Steele broadened the account in 1997, arguing that the effect can arise for any group facing a relevant stereotype, including women in mathematics settings, and that repeated exposure may lead people to disengage from the threatened domain. The construct is distinctive in locating a source of measured group differences in the immediate testing situation and its social meaning rather than in fixed traits, and it is defined at the moment of performance, so it is studied by manipulating the situation and observing the change in outcomes.[1][2][3]

Unit
A situational psychological state, present or absent by degree, that arises when a relevant negative stereotype is salient during performance
Recovery means
Reducing the salience of the stereotype or the identity, for example by reframing the task as non-diagnostic or affirming the person's values, can attenuate the effect in experimental settings
Measured by
Operationalised experimentally by contrasting a threat condition against a control condition and comparing task performance, often on standardised or timed tests, with the difference attributed to the manipulated situation

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References

  1. Steele, C. M., & Aronson, J. (1995). Stereotype threat and the intellectual test performance of African Americans. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(5), 797–811. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.69.5.797
  2. Steele, C. M. (1997). A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance. American Psychologist, 52(6), 613–629. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.52.6.613
  3. Nguyen, H.-H. D., & Ryan, A. M. (2008). Does stereotype threat affect test performance of minorities and women? A meta-analysis of experimental evidence. Journal of Applied Psychology, 93(6), 1314–1334. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012702

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