Threatening the Heart and Mind of Gender Stereotypes: Can Imagined Contact Influence the Physiology of Stereotype Threat?
Research shows that when a gender stereotype is made salient and the target of the stereotype is asked to perform in the stereotyped domain, targets of the stereotype often perform at a lower level compared to situations when the stereotype was not made salient (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999)....
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27746 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05162012-093537/ |