Stereotype Threat

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Stereotype threat is a phenomenon that occurs when a person, who is subject to inauspicious stereotypes (e.g. women in math and science and white males on the basketball court) are negatively affected (at least in testing environments) by the salience of their category membership. Stereotype threat is a type of confirmation bias, and can be either positive or negative. A typical example of stereotype threat manifests when a categorical group is told or shown that their group''s performance is worse than other groups before giving them a test; the test results are often abnormally lower than for control groups. For example, on a mathematics test, if you remind a group of girls that boys tend to do better on this type of test, it is likely that the girls will do more poorly on the test than they would have had they not been told.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stereotype threat is a phenomenon that occurs when a person, who is subject to inauspicious stereotypes (e.g. women in math and science and white males on the basketball court) are negatively affected (at least in testing environments) by the salience of their category membership. Stereotype threat is a type of confirmation bias, and can be either positive or negative. A typical example of stereotype threat manifests when a categorical group is told or shown that their group's performance is worse than other groups before giving them a test; the test results are often abnormally lower than for control groups. For example, on a mathematics test, if you remind a group of girls that boys tend to do better on this type of test, it is likely that the girls will do more poorly on the test than they would have had they not been told.