stereotype threat

📖 Definitions

"when one’s performance has the risk of reinforcing negative stereotypes about one’s group and that group membership is made salient to them" (Fehr and Jones 2022, 12)

💡 Examples

• "Black students to fill out a demographic survey question about their race before taking a test had a negative impact on their test performance" (Fehr and Minji 2022, 12)

🔗 Relations

• part of: epistemic exploitation

📚 References

• Fehr, Carla, and Janet Minji Jones. 2022. ‘Culture, Exploitation, and Epistemic Approaches to Diversity’. Synthese 200 (6): 465. https: doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03787-8.

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