Stereotype Threat May Not Impact Women’s Inhibitory Control or Mathematical Performance : Providing Support for the Null Hypothesis

Pennington, Charlotte Rebecca and Litchfield, Damien and McLatchie, Neil Marvin and Heim, Derek (2019) Stereotype Threat May Not Impact Women’s Inhibitory Control or Mathematical Performance : Providing Support for the Null Hypothesis. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49 (4). pp. 717-734. ISSN 0046-2772

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Abstract

Underpinned by the findings of Jamieson and Harkins (2007; Experiment 3, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology), the current study pits the mere effort motivational account of stereotype threat against a working memory interference account. In Experiment 1, females were primed with a negative self- or group stereotype pertaining to their visuospatial ability and completed an anti-saccade eye-tracking task. In Experiment 2 they were primed with a negative or positive group stereotype and completed an anti-saccade and mental arithmetic task. Findings indicate that stereotype threat did not significantly impair women’s inhibitory control (Experiments 1 & 2) or mathematical performance (Experiment 2), with Bayesian analyses providing support for the null hypothesis. These findings are discussed in relation to potential moderating factors of stereotype threat, such as task difficulty and stereotype endorsement, as well as the possibility that effect sizes reported in the stereotype threat literature are inflated due to publication bias.

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European Journal of Social Psychology
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This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Pennington, C. R., Litchfield, D. , McLatchie, N. and Heim, D. (2019), Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis.European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2540 which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2540 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
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Subjects:
?? stereotype threatmathematical performanceworking memorymere effortbayesian analysisbayes factorssocial psychology ??
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29 Aug 2018 12:14
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