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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The University of Arizona.
2005
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193569 |