Whistling Vivaldi : and other clues to how stereotypes affect us (Issues of our time (WW Norton & Company))
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In this work, the author, a social psychologist, addresses one of the most perplexing social issues of our time: the trend of minority underperformance in higher education. With strong evidence showing that the problem involves more than weaker skills, he explores other explanations. Here he present... Full description
Table of Contents:
- An
- introduction : at the root of identity
- A
- mysterious link between identity and intellectual performance
- Stereotype threat comes to light, and in more than one group
- A broader view of identity : in the lives of Anatole Broyard, Amin Maalouf, and the rest of us
- The many experiences of stereotype threat
- Identity threat and the efforting life
- The mind on stereotype threat : racing and overloaded
- The strength of stereotype threat : the role of cues
- Reducing identity and stereotype threat : a new hope
- The distance between us : the role of identity threat
- Conclusion : identity as a bridge between us.