Embodied Stereotype Threat: Exploring Brain and Body Mechanisms Underlying Performance Impairments

Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mendes, Wendy Berry ^a   Jamieson, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Biological mechanisms; Challenge; Neuroscience; Stereotype threat; Stress; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921781814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732449.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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