Examining the Role of Anxiety Avoidance in the Effect of Stereotype Threat on Working Memory Capacity

Describing a test as a measure of an ability certain groups are stereotyped to lack can hurt the performance of members of those groups. Steele and his colleagues call this effect stereotype threat (1997; Steele & Aronson, 1995; Steele, Spencer, & Aronson, 2002). Now well established...

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Main Author: Johns, Michael
Other Authors: Schmader, Toni
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2005
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193569