Title

Stereotype Threat: A Meta-Analysis Comparing African Americans To Hispanic Americans

Abstract

Stereotype threat theory posits an explanation for cognitive underperformance in groups based on social stereotypes. When stereotypes are negatively related to a cognitive task, awareness of this relationship leads to decreased performance on that task; however, this underperformance can be reduced by actively dismissing the stereotype or disguising the nature of the task. This meta-analysis examined the effects of stereotype threat nullification among African Americans and Hispanic Americans. There was a moderate improvement in scores for both African American and Hispanic Americans' performance when stereotype threat was nullified (d=0.52). However, there were no differences between African Americans and Hispanic Americans or between the experimental methods used to create stereotype threats in terms of their effects on the outcomes. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Publication Date

4-1-2011

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volume

41

Issue

4

Number of Pages

872-890

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00739.x

Socpus ID

79954606168 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/79954606168

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