Implicit stereotypes and women’s math performance: How implicit gender-math stereotypes inXuence women’s susceptibility to stereotype threat
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This experiment examined the eVects of implicit gender-math stereotyping and implicit gender and math identiWcation on women’s math performance under stereotype threat and reduced threat conditions. Results showed that of the three, only implicit gender-math stereotyping moderated stereotype threat eVects on women’s math performance: women who showed less implicit math-gender stereotyping showed the largest performance diVerence across experimental conditions. These results suggest that women’s implicit associations between gender and math interact with situational cues to inXuence their math performance: women who implicitly associate women more than men with mathematics were most beneWted by reduction of stereotype salience during testing. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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