"Math is Hard!" The effect of gender priming on women's attitudes

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 428-436

  Steele, Jennifer R ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Implicit associations; Mathematics; Prime; Social category; Stereotype activation; Stereotype threat; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744519052     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.06.003     Document Type: Article

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