Alleviating women's mathematics stereotype threat through salience of group achievements

Article Abstract:

Two experiments were conducted, which investigated whether reminding women of other women's achievements might alleviate women's mathematics stereotype threat. Implications for theories of stereotype threat, self-evaluation, and performance expectations were seen in the results.

Women, Mathematical analysis

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Solo status, stereotype threat, and performance expectancies: their effects on women's performance

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An experiment tested women's performance in solo status (SS) and under stereotypic threat (ST). White male and female participants learned information, and then tested on it in an opposite gender (SS) or same-gender group (nonsolo).

Female-male relations

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Implicit stereotypes and women's math performance: how implicit gender-math stereotypes influence women's susceptibility to stereotype threat

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The performance of women in math tests was investigated on the basis of implicit gender identification. The gender-math stereotyping is found to be crucial in predicting women's math performance.

United States, Analysis, Education, Sex differences (Psychology), Mathematical ability, Stereotyped behavior (Psychiatry), Women college students, Educational aspects, Report, Stereotypy (Psychology)

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