Mere Effort and Stereotype Threat Performance Effects

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 544-564

  Jamieson, Jeremy P ^a   Harkins, Stephen G ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antisaccade; mere effort; stereotype threat; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CUES; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREJUDICE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; STEREOTYPING; VOLITION;

EID: 35448976035     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.4.544     Document Type: Article

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