Facts about Stereotype Threat

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   Awareness of a negative group stereotype is sufficient to trigger stereotype threat, even when the individual does not personally believe the stereotype.

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   Reducing stereotype threat through simple 'values affirmation' exercises, where individuals write about personal values, has been shown to meaningfully close achievement gaps in academic settings.

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   The phenomenon affects a wide range of groups, including women in mathematics, elderly individuals on memory tests, and white athletes in certain sports.

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   Stereotype threat has been shown to impair performance by increasing anxiety and reducing working memory capacity available for the task at hand.

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   Psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson coined the term stereotype threat in their landmark 1995 study examining Black students' academic test performance.

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