Clearing the air: identity safety moderates the effects of stereotype threat on women's leadership aspirations.

By Paul G. Davies, S. Spencer, C. Steele. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Situational disengagement and persistence in the face of adversity (2007, background): “Whether one is under suspicion of academic incompetence (Steele & Aronson, 1995), the inability to lead ( Davies, Spencer, & Steele, 2005 ), or ineptitude at math (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999), being viewed through the lens of a negative stereotype is an unpleasant experience.”
The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses (2016, background): “…one’s group in a stereotyped domain and, therefore, inoculating participants from stereotype threat (Dasgupta, 2011; Dasgupta & Asgari, 2004; Davies et al., 2005; Marx & Goff, 2005; Marx & Roman, 2002; McIntyre et al., 2003; Shaffer, Marx, & Prislin, 2012; Shapiro et al., 2013; Stout et…”
Not Feeling Good in STEM: Effects of Stereotype Activation and Anticipated Affect on Women’s Career Aspirations (2017, background): “…(i.e., that women are less capable in a specific domain) can elicit a sense of threat and thus can reduce the motivation to engage in the respective domain and lead to its abandonment (Davies et al. 2002; Davies et al. 2005; Kronberger and Horwath 2013; Murphy et al. 2007; Woodcock et al. 2012).”
Stereotypes and the Achievement Gap: Stereotype Threat Prior to Test Taking (2012, background): “Likewise, women who saw stereotypic ads preferred a submissive role over a leadership role in an upcoming problem solving task (Davies et al. 2005).”
Stereotype Threat in the Marketplace: Consumer Anxiety and Purchase Intentions (2011, background): “…exposed to neutral or counter-stereotypic television commercials, women who watched gender-stereotypic television commercials subsequently underperformed on a math test (Davies et al. 2002) and avoided leadership roles in favor of nonthreatening subordinate roles (Davies, Spencer, and Steele 2005).”
Stereotype Threat in Organizations: Implications for Equity and Performance (2015, background): “These identity safety cues suggest to individuals that their social group is welcomed and respected and not a barrier to advancement (Davies et al. 2005, Singh et al. 2013, Steele&Cohn-Vargas 2013).”
Leadership and followership identity processes: A multilevel review ☆ (2017, background): “To the best of our knowledge, there has only been one recent review chapter by Ibarra, Wittman, Petriglieri and Day (2014) in the Oxford Handbook of Leadership and Organizations that adopts a leader-centric perspective and integrates three theories of identity, i.”
Establishing a causal chain: why experiments are often more effective than mediational analyses in examining psychological processes. (2005, background): “Had Davies et al. (2005) examined simple mediation across conditions under the assumption that the mediator would show the same relation to the dependent variable in all conditions, then they would have found no evidence for the proposed psychological process, although such evidence existed.”