STEREOTYPE

THREATS AND THE

EFFECTS
BY: NICHOLE BASSEGIO
STEREOTYPE THREATS

 Stereotype threat refers to emotions and cognitions that are at play when

someone believes they are at risk of confirming a negative stereotype involving

one's social group.

PROBLEM?
 People who feel they fall into the category that is different from the ”norm” are

being targeted and expected to preform a certain way to live up to those

standards.

 Get a solid understanding from their findings and begin to try to make

recommendations to make stereotype threats less likely and to provide support

for people who are victims of it that ultimately will cause a problem with lifelong

progress and goals.

SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
 examines how categorizing people into groups affects perceptions, attitudes, and

behavior.

 Directly relates back to stereotype threats because people who feel they fall into

a certain category are supposed to live up to those expectations people have of

them.

 They feel pressure to conform

ARONSON 2002

 Joshua Aronson Study he took three different groups of people and tested their

responses to stereotype threats. From this test, we can conclude that Members

of minority groups such as blacks, women and Asians do worse on tests when

reminded of their race or gender (Aronson, 2002).

AGE-BASED STEREOTYPE THREATS

 Does age play a role in conforming stereotypes?

 older adult’s memory is negatively affected by threat from age stereotypes, and

these types of results seem to be the same across gender and the different age

groups looked at.

 Lamont, R. A., Swift, H. J., & Abrams, D. (2015)

MOTIVATIONAL EXPERIENCE
MODEL
 research illustrates that people of stereotype threats academic and career

motivations are influenced by stereotype threats more broadly, particularly through

influences on achievement orientations, sense of belonging, and intrinsic

motivation.

 How they maintain over long periods of time

IMPLICATIONS

 When we stereotype people based on group membership we are just “lumping”

people into categories.

 Victims of stereotypes try to disconfirm this. This takes effort that is distracting.
LIMITATIONS

 A lot of the research that was conducted was based in a more controlled setting

 The variety of people who are being looked at for the research
FUTURE DIRECTIONS

 Change how we view stereotypes

 Understand people for who they are not who they should be
REFERENCES:

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Aronson, J., Steele, C. M. (1995). Stereotype Threats and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans. Attitudes and Social

Cognition

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Bryant, W., & Casad, B. (2016, January 20). Addressing Stereotype Threat is Critical to Diversity and Inclusion in Organizational Psychology.

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Lamont, R. A., Swift, H. J., & Abrams, D. (2015). A review and meta-analysis of age-based stereotype threat: negative stereotypes, not facts,

do the damage. Psychology and aging, 30(1), 180–193.

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Nguyen, H., & Ryan, A. (n.d.). Publication Bias and Stereotype Threat Research: A Reply to Zigerell.

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Smith, L. V., & Cokley, K. (2016, April). Stereotype Threat Vulnerability. Retrieved March 21, 2018,