Psychology · Social Psychology
A topic within Social Psychology, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans
Claude M. Steele & Joshua Aronson · 1995
Argues that merely being aware of a negative stereotype about one's group can itself depress performance on a task where that stereotype applies, a…
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The Nature of Prejudice
Gordon W. Allport · 1954
Argues prejudice is an overgeneralised, resistant attitude rooted in normal cognitive categorisation rather than pathology, and lays out the contact…
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Claude M. Steele & Joshua Aronson
Argues 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.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyPaulette 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.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Notes on this copyGordon W. Allport
Argues prejudice is an overgeneralised, resistant attitude rooted in normal cognitive categorisation rather than pathology, and lays out the contact conditions under which intergroup exposure reduces rather than hardens it.
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