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Stereotype Threat

New Research Shows Positive Interventions Help Latino Students Confront the 'Stereotype Threat'

Michaela Pommells | Posted 05.14.2013 | Latino Voices
Read More: Interventions, Race and Academic Achievement, Academic Achievement, Stereotypes, Stereotype Threat, Stanford University, Positive Interventions, Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes, Latino Students, Latino Voices News
Michaela Pommells

Although multicultural education has sometimes proven to be an effective means of supporting the school experiences of students of color, this study shows that psychological intervention has a positive impact on the academic achievement of Latino students.

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Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid Of Your 'Senior Moments'

Susan Krauss Whitbourne | Posted 02.20.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Aging, Mental Health, Activity, Alzheimer's Association, Memory Loss, Senior Moment, Mindlessness, Attitudes Toward Aging, Stereotypes, Prevention, Exercise, Health, Am I Having a Senior Moment?, Memory Slips, Stereotype Threat, Health Care, Alzheimer' Disease, Fifty News
Susan Krauss Whitbourne

Everyone, at any age, forgets. Your senior moment may be no different than the junior moments you've had your whole life.

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Joy Resmovits

Reassuring Kids About Failure Boosts Scores, Says Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.13.2012 | Home
Read More: Education News, Testing, Video, Education, Teacher Evaluations, Psychological Research, Claude Steele, France, Standardized Tests, Standardized Testing, Stereotype Threat, Psychology, Education Reform, Teachers, Home News

Every day for the last four years, Leah Alcala has greeted her Berkeley, California, middle-school students with an exercise she calls "my favorite no...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: You Are Not Too Pretty To Do Math--Or Science!

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.06.2012 | Science
Read More: Women, Stem, Jane Goodall, Science, Mathematics, Girls in Science, Marie Curie, Engineering, Girls, Video, Math, Talk Nerdy to Me, Google Science Fair, Cara Santa Maria, Stereotype Threat, Technology, Women in Science, Girls in Stem, Science News

2012-02-08-jdjgidjfidjfidijfdfcnvmnmvcnvmcnvmcbvcvbmcbvmcbv.jpgWomen make up just about half of the American workforce, but we hold less than a quarter of the STEM jobs. Why is that?

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Why Women Rule At Negotiation

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 03.12.2012 | Women
Read More: Women and Money, Negotiation, Women, Stereotypes, Reframing, Women in Business, Stereotype Threat, Women in Leadership, Gender, Women News
Tara Sophia Mohr

Women, can you change your vision of a what a highly skilled negotiator looks like, to a picture that looks more like you?

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Confidence Matters Just as Much as Ability

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.10.2012 | Science
Read More: Mental Rotation, Stereotype Threat, Mental Rotation Ability, Stereotype Threat Women, Stereotype Threat Theory, Stereotype Threat Effect, Stereotype Threat Definition, Stereotype Threat Gender, Stereotype Threat Psychology, Emotional Intelligence, Science News
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

A bulk of research shows that when people are put in situations where they are expected to fail, their performance does plummet. They turn into different people. Their head literally shuts down, and they end up confirming the expectations.

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Context, Gender, and Why Riley's Right to Be Pissed Off About Toys

Sam Sommers | Posted 03.06.2012 | Parents
Read More: Halloween Costumes, Viral Videos, Newborns, Youtube, Sex Differences, Gender, Daughters, Happy Meal, Star Wars, Fast Food, Mars and Venus, Speed Dating, Context, Math, Situations Matter, Stereotype Threat, Video Games, Video, Parents News
Sam Sommers

Behavioral science has now shown us that many of the gender differences we habitually chalk up to biology or evolution aren't as set in stone as we assume.

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