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Stereotype Threat Learning Series

Our thoughtfully curated resources are tailored to unravel the nuances of this phenomenon, providing profound insights and effective strategies to navigate and mitigate its impact. Delve into the profound dynamics of stereotype threat, fostering understanding and empowering you to make a positive difference in your sphere of influence.

Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, & Higher Education

In this video, Russell McClain examines the role of implicit bias and stereotype threat—the fear of confirming another's biased views—in creating achievement gaps in higher education. McClain’s scholarship explores whether implicit bias and stereotype threat converge to suppress the academic performance of minority groups, especially in higher education.

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How Stereotypes Affect Us

What do we know about stereotypes? How do can they influence our behavior and affect our performance on tests, in social situations and in all areas of our lives? Explore the concept of "stereotype threat" with Claude Steele, Dean of the Stanford School of Education and a social psychologist by training.

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Empowering STEM Inclusivity

Private and public policies are increasingly aimed at supporting efforts to broaden participation of a diverse body of students in higher education. Unfortunately, this increase in student diversity does not always occur alongside changes in institutional culture. Unexamined biases in institutional culture can prevent diverse students from thriving and persisting in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Read Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role do Faculty Play? by Tess L. Killpack, and Laverne C. Melón, CBE.

Decoding Bias in Hiring

Once a Goth chick living in the East Village of New York City, now in the corporate world, Tolstoi-Miller shares her very personal story in this video of bias and how recognizing her own unconscious bias taught her to say, "So what?".

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How They See Us

On the surface, stereotypes that other people hold shouldn't affect the way we think or act. But our concerns about other people’s perceptions have a way of burrowing deep into our minds. The Hidden Brain Podcast: How They See Us discusses how stereotypes are all around us, shaping how we see the world—and how the world sees us.

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Stereotype Threat

The article Stereotype Threat by Steven J Spencer, Christine Logel, and Paul G. Davies explores the various sources of stereotype threat, the mechanisms underlying stereotype-threat effects (both mediators and moderators), and the consequences of this situational predicament, as well as the means through which society and stigmatized individuals can overcome the insidious effects of stereotype threat.