Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators.
This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized in...
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| description | This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized into affective/subjective (n = 6), cognitive (n = 7) and motivational mechanisms (n = 4). Empirical support was accrued for mediators such as anxiety, negative thinking, and mind-wandering, which are suggested to co-opt working memory resources under stereotype threat. Other research points to the assertion that stereotype threatened individuals may be motivated to disconfirm negative stereotypes, which can have a paradoxical effect of hampering performance. However, stereotype threat appears to affect diverse social groups in different ways, with no one mediator providing unequivocal empirical support. Underpinned by the multi-threat framework, the discussion postulates that different forms of stereotype threat may be mediated by distinct mechanisms. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5a712b18e58849e8b352af360a5889bb2022-12-22T01:03:59ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-01111e014648710.1371/journal.pone.0146487Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators.Charlotte R PenningtonDerek HeimAndrew R LevyDerek T LarkinThis systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized into affective/subjective (n = 6), cognitive (n = 7) and motivational mechanisms (n = 4). Empirical support was accrued for mediators such as anxiety, negative thinking, and mind-wandering, which are suggested to co-opt working memory resources under stereotype threat. Other research points to the assertion that stereotype threatened individuals may be motivated to disconfirm negative stereotypes, which can have a paradoxical effect of hampering performance. However, stereotype threat appears to affect diverse social groups in different ways, with no one mediator providing unequivocal empirical support. Underpinned by the multi-threat framework, the discussion postulates that different forms of stereotype threat may be mediated by distinct mechanisms.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4713435?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Charlotte R Pennington Derek Heim Andrew R Levy Derek T Larkin Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators. PLoS ONE |
| title | Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators. |
| title_full | Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators. |
| title_fullStr | Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators. |
| title_short | Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators. |
| title_sort | twenty years of stereotype threat research a review of psychological mediators |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4713435?pdf=render |
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