It depends on your perspective: The role of self-relevance in stereotype-based underperformance

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 768-775

  Marx, David M ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Perspective taking; Self relevance; Stereotype priming; Stereotype threat; Stereotyped concerns; Test performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748915649     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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