Stereotype Threat

Michael Inzlicht was born and raised in Montréal, Canada. He is proud to be the first in his extended family to obtain a college degree, a bachelor of science in Anatomical Sciences from McGill University. Michael credits McGill with shaping his current identity, values, and orientation. He received his MS and PhD from Brown University, and was a postdoctoral fellow at New York University. In 2004, he moved back to Canada and spent a short time at Wilfrid Laurier University, before taking his current position at the University of Toronto, where he studies prejudice, self-control, and religion, often using the modern tools of neuroscience. Toni Schmader grew up in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. She first became interested in group differences in academic performance when she read Jonathon Kozol's books on social inequality in high school. She received her BA in Psychology from Washington and Jefferson College and her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She served on the faculty at the University of Arizona for ten years and is currently the Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where she continues to publish research aimed at understanding and mitigating social inequality.

Chapter 1 - Introduction ; Michael Inzlicht and Toni Schmader ; Chapter 2 - The Role of Situational Cues in Signaling and Maintaining Stereotype Threat ; Mary C. Murphy and Valerie Jones Taylor ; Chapter 3 - An Integration of Processes that Underlie Stereotype Threat ; Toni Schmader and Sian Beilock ; Chapter 4 - Embodied Stereotype Threat: Exploring brain and body mechanisms underlying performance impairments ; Wendy Berry Mendes and Jeremy Jamieson ; Chapter 5 - Types of threats: From stereotype threat to stereotype threats ; Jenessa R. Shapiro ; Chapter 6 - Do I Belong? How Negative Intellectual Stereotypes Undermine People's Sense of Social Belonging in School and How to Fix It ; Gregory M. Walton and Priyanka B. Carr ; Chapter 7 - Stereotype Threat Spillover: The short-term and long-term effects of coping with threats to social identity ; Michael Inzlicht, Alexa M. Tullett, and Jennifer N. Gutsell ; Chapter 8 - Differentiating Theories: A comparison of stereotype threat and stereotype priming effects ; David M. Marx and Diederik A. Stapel ; Chapter 9 - Stereotype Boost: Positive Outcomes from the Activation of Positive Stereotypes ; Margaret J. Shih, Todd L. Pittinsky, and Geoffrey C. Ho ; Chapter 10 - Threatening Gender and Race: Different manifestations of stereotype threat ; Christine Logel, Jennifer Peach, and Steven J. Spencer ; Chapter 11 - Stereotype Threat in Organizations: An examination of its scope, triggers, and possible interventions ; Laura J. Kray and Aiwa Shirako ; Chapter 12 - Social Class and Test Performance: From stereotype threat to symbolic violence ; Jean-Claude Croizet and Mathias Millet ; Chapter 13 - Aging and Stereotype Threat: Development, process, and interventions ; Alison L. Chasteen, Sonia K. Kang, and Jessica D. Remedios ; Chapter 14 - The Impact of Stereotype Threat on Performance in Sports ; Jeff Stone, Aina Chalabaev, and C. Keith Harrison ; Chapter 15 - Stereotype Threat in Interracial Interactions ; Jennifer A. Richeson and J. Nicole Shelton ; Chapter 16 - Concerns About Generalizing Stereotype Threat Research Findings to Operational High Stakes Testing ; Paul R. Sackett and Ann Marie Ryan ; Chapter 17 - Stereotype Threat in the Real World ; Joshua Aronson and Thomas Dee ; Chapter 18 - An Identity Threat Perspective on Intervention ; Geoffrey L. Cohen, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, and Julio Garcia ; Chapter 19 - Extending and Applying Stereotype Threat Research: A brief essay ; Claude M. Steele