Stereotype threat

By A. Saini. The Lancet, 2020

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Stereotype threat is a theory of discrimination response behavior that was first coined by Steele and Aronson (1995). The theory posits that under specific conditions involving explicitly revealed stereotypes, people will subconsciously act to fulfill those stereotypes, even when the outcome is detrimental. In order for the conditions of stereotype threat to be met, three elements must be in place:

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oncology

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Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research (2019, background): “In clinical encounters, these processes lead to minorities receiving inferior medical care and weight gain among stigmatized groups (6, 114, 141).”
Belonging: a review of conceptual issues, an integrative framework, and directions for future research (2021, background): “…sexually or gender diverse, or individuals with behaviours, attributes, or abilities that depart from the social norm, such as those that stem from mental health issues or disability (Gardner et al., 2019; Harrist & Bradley, 2002; Rainey et al., 2018; Spencer et al., 2016; Steger & Kashdan, 2009).”
Gender bias and stereotypes in Large Language Models (2023, background): “Others may experience the bias as microaggressions and suffer the psychological harms associated with microaggressions and stereotype threat [65, 72, 86, 98].”
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Social Networks and Cognition (2020, background): “…threat, a phenomenon that occurs when stereo-typical expectations about a group’s performance in a particular domain are salient to members of that group and serve to paradoxically undermine their performance by diverting working memory resources from task execution (Spencer et al. 2016).”
Men, women and STEM: Why the differences and what should be done? (2020, methodology): “According to one study, by four years of age, girls tend to assume that boys are academically inferior, and by seven, boys assume the same thing (Hartley & Sutton, 2013).”
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 (2021, background): “Either way, harms ensue: readers subject to the stereotypes may experience the psychological harms of microaggressions [88, 141] and stereotype threat [97, 126].”
Word Embeddings (Also) Encode Human Personality Stereotypes (2019, background): “Stereotypes are highly problematic because even simply evoking them can trigger change in behavior (Duguid and Thomas-Hunt, 2015; Spencer et al., 2016).”
Tackling Educational Inequalities with Social Psychology: Identities, Contexts, and Interventions (2020, background): “This—like social identity threat more generally—increases anxiety and worry and uses up precious cognitive resources that would otherwise be dedicated to performance (Inzlicht et al., 2011; S. J. Spencer et al., 2016; Walton & Spencer, 2009).”