Discounting the difficult: How high math-identified women respond to stereotype threat

Sex Roles

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 113-125

  Lesko, Alexandra C ^a   Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Identity; Mathematics; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644519640     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-005-8873-2     Document Type: Article

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