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Too Old for Computers? The Longitudinal Relationship Between Stereotype Threat and Computer Use by Older Adults

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Besides having lower rates of technology adoption than the general population, older adults are commonly stereotyped as lacking technological ability. Stereotype threat, the fear of confirming negative stereotypes targeting their social group, may lead ...
João Mariano   +7 more
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Chronic Stereotype Threat Is Associated With Mathematical Achievement on Representative Sample of Secondary Schoolgirls: The Role of Gender Identification, Working Memory, and Intellectual Helplessness

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
Stereotype threat affects performance in many different groups across many different domains. Despite a large body of experimental research on situational stereotype threat, little attention has been paid to the consequences of repeated experience of ...
Sylwia Bedyńska   +2 more
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Double Jeopardy-Analyzing the Combined Effect of Age and Gender Stereotype Threat on Older Workers

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
In this study we aim to analyze the combined effect of age-based and gender stereotype threat on work identity processes (and in particular on authenticity and organizational identification) and on work performance (self-rating performance). The research
Claudia Manzi   +4 more
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The Impact of Naturalistic Age Stereotype Activation

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Almost self-fulfilling, commonly held negative stereotypes about old age and memory can impair older adults’ episodic memory performance, due to age-based stereotype threat or self-stereotyping effects.
Carla M. Strickland-Hughes   +1 more
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Examining Perceived Stereotype Threat among Overweight/Obese Adults Using a Multi-Threat Framework

open access: yesObesity Facts, 2013
Objective: The Multi-Threat Framework accounts for potentially different forms of stereotype threat that differ in target (i.e., the individual or the group) and source (i.e., the self or others).
Robert A. Carels   +9 more
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Reality Stems From Modality: Stereotype Threat Effects of a STEM Game in Augmented and Virtual Reality

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021
This study examined the relationship between stereotype threat, game modality (augmented reality, virtual reality), and stereotypic beliefs about STEM fields.
Rabindra Ratan   +4 more
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Helping Our Students Reach Their Full Potential: The Insidious Consequences of Stereotype Threat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A psychological phenomenon may be a significant cause of academic underachievement by minorities in law school. This phenomenon, called stereotype threat, occurs as a result of the fear of confirming a negative group stereotype (such as African-Americans
McClain, Russell A
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A Review and Meta-Analysis of Age-Based Stereotype Threat: Negative Stereotypes, Not Facts, Do the Damage. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Stereotype threat effects arise when an individual feels at risk of confirming a negative stereotype about their group and consequently underperforms on stereotype relevant tasks (Steele, 2010).
Abrams, Dominic   +2 more
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Women Scientists Who Made Nuclear Astrophysics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Female role models reduce the impact on women of stereotype threat, i.e., of being at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about one's social, gender, or racial group [1,2].
Aliotta, Marialuisa   +26 more
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Measuring Stereotype Threat at Math and Language Arts in Secondary School: Validation of a Questionnaire

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
A stereotype threat arises when a negative stereotype about group to which an individual belongs is activated. It affects the achievement and interest of students in a particular academic domain, e.g., girls at math or boys at language arts. Hence, it is
Sylwia Bedyńska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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