How implicit gender stereotypes and attitudes shape self-definition

Gender Attitudes and Stereotypes in Childhood 1 The Gendered Self-Concept: How Implicit Gender Stereotypes and Attitudes Shape Self-Definition

Implicit Math Cognitions 1 Implicit social cognitions predict sex differences in math engagement and achievement

Gender stereotypes about math and science do not need to be endorsed, or even available to conscious introspection, to contribute to the sex gap in engagement and achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We examined implicit math attitudes and stereotypes among a heterogeneous sample of 5,139 participants. Women showed stronger implicit negativity toward math than...

Math Male, Me Female, Therefore Math Me

College students, especially women, demonstrated negativity toward math and science relative to arts and language on implicit measures. Group membership (being female), group identity (self female), and gender stereotypes (math male) were related to attitudes and identification with mathematics. Stronger implicit math male stereotypes corresponded with more negative implicit and explicit math a...

LESSONS LEARNED FROM A CLOCKWORK ORANGE: HOW RETRAINING IMPLICIT ATTITUDES AND STEREOTYPES AFFECTS MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE UNDER STEREOTYPE THREAT by

While evidence suggests stereotype threat effects invade conscious levels of processing, less is known about the role that implicit processes play in stereotype threat. Results from four studies indicate that implicit attitudes and stereotypes play a unique role in motivation and performance in stereotype threatening contexts. Women trained to have positive implicit math attitudes exhibited inc...

The self-protective nature of implicit identity and its relationship to weight bias and short-term weight loss.

BACKGROUND/AIMS Research suggests that making overly positive self-evaluations is the norm rather than the exception. However, unlike other stigmatized groups, overweight individuals do not exhibit a positive in-group social identity and instead exhibit significant explicit, implicit, and internalized weight bias. Therefore, it is not known whether overweight/obese individuals will evidence sel...