Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
Acclaimed social psychologist Claude Steele offers an insider’s look at his groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.\ Through dramatic personal stories, Claude Steele shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes—merely reminding a group of female math majors about to take a math test, for example, that women are considered naturally inferior to men at math—impairs their performance in the area affected by the stereotype....
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Acclaimed social psychologist Claude Steele offers an insider’s look at his groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.
Ch. 1 An Introduction: At the Root of Identity 1Ch. 2 A Mysterious Link Between Identity and Intellectual Performance 16Ch. 3 Stereotype Threat Comes to Light, and in More than One Group 44Ch. 4 A Broader View of Identity: In the Lives of Anatole Broyard, Amin Maalouf, and the Rest of Us 63Ch. 5 The Many Experiences of Stereotype Threat 85Ch. 6 Identity Threat and the Efforting Life 99Ch. 7 The Mind on Stereotype Threat: Racing and Overloaded 114Ch. 8 The Strength of Stereotype Threat: The Role of Cues 134Ch. 9 Reducing Identity and Stereotype Threat: A New Hope 152Ch. 10 The Distance Between Us: The Role of Identity Threat 191Ch. 11 Conclusion: Identity as a Bridge Between Us 211References 220Index 231
