Threat Inoculation: Experienced and Imagined Intergenerational Contact Prevents Stereotype Threat Effects on Older People's Math Performance

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 934-939

  Abrams, Dominic ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^a   Marques, Sibila ^b   Fagg, Emily ^a   Bedford, Lauren ^a   Provias, Dimitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

imagined contact; intergenerational contact; stereotype threat; test performance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; STEREOTYPING; SUGGESTION;

EID: 58749107555     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014293     Document Type: Article

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