Contending with group image: The psychology of stereotype and social identity threat

By C. Steele, S. Spencer, Joshua Aronson. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Mathematics Anxiety (2017, background): “Steele, Spencer, and Aronson (2002) contend that not doing well in a content area like mathematics may be a result of “persistent patterns of social identity and stereotype threat” (p. 424) that become tangled up in an individual’s identity.”
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception (2007, background): “Research on “stereotype threat” finds that individual African Americans, to head off discriminatory treatment, will conspicuously disavow attitudes associated with their race (Steele & Aaronson 1995; Steele et al. 2002).”
Does stereotype threat affect test performance of minorities and women? A meta-analysis of experimental evidence. (2008, background): “Because the cognitive demands of a difficult test will increase individuals’ mental workload, interference from a stereotype will be cognitively more problematic when a test is challenging than when a test does not require as much from the test takers’ resources (Steele & Aronson, 1995; Steele et al”
The effects of an academic environment intervention on science identification among women in STEM (2013, background): “Finally, they may remind women that others expect women to have weaker math and science ability than men (Steele et al. 2002), and thus heighten awareness that they may be judged in terms of this stereotype (Spencer et al. 1999).”
(In)validating Stereotypes About Older Workers Influences Their Intentions to Retire Early and to Learn and Develop (2010, positive): “approach (Steele et al., 2002), we hypothesized that older workers confronted with negative age-related stereotypic information would be more likely to report intending to retire early than those exposed to more positive age-related stereotypic information.”
The Effects of Stereotypes on the Achievement Gap: Reexamining the Academic Performance of African American High School Students (2008, background): “However, heightened perceptions of the existence of a stereotype related to one’s group membership may exacerbate the potential for evaluation apprehension (Steele, 1997) and make one more vulnerable to the fear of confirming the expectations of others regarding a group stereotype (Steele et al., 20”
A lesson in bias: The relationship between implicit racial bias and performance in pedagogical contexts (2016, background): “Perhaps explicitly prejudiced instructors exhibited more deliberately prejudicial behaviors that increased identity threat (Steele et al., 2002) or expectancy confirmation processes (Weinstein et al.”
Stereotype Threat in Organizations: Implications for Equity and Performance (2015, methodology): “…and social identity threat heighten vigilance to situational cues in the local environment as members of stereotyped groups seek information about whether their group is valued and accepted there (Garcia & Cohen 2012, Murphy & Taylor 2012, Murphy et al. 2007, Steele et al. 2002) (see Table 1).”
Improving adolescents' standardized test performance: An intervention to reduce the effects of stereotype threat (2003, result): “Recent research in social psychology, however, has demonstrated that these gaps may be a product of a more general cognitive process that may be, as a result, more amenable to intervention than previously thought (Aronson et al., 1999; Aronson, Quinn, & Spencer, 1998; Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999;”