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2015

Does Stereotype Threat Influence Performance of Girls in Stereotyped Domains? A Meta-Analysis

Paulette C. Flore & Jelte M. Wicherts

A meta-analysis of stereotype-threat studies in children finds a much smaller effect than the original studies suggested, and one sensitive to publication bias and small-sample inflation.

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Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African AmericansClaude M. Steele & Joshua Aronson, 1995Argues that merely being aware of a negative stereotype about one's group can itself depress performance on a task where that stereotype applies, a widely cited effect whose size has since been substantially revised down by meta-analysis.

Filed under Social Psychology in Psychology.