Reducing the effect of stereotype threat: the role of coaction contexts and regulatory fit

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• 作者：Fangfang Wen ; Bin Zuo ; Yang Wu ; Xuanhao Dong ; Wei Wang
• 关键词：Stereotype threat ; Cooperation ; Competition ; Regulatory fit ; Promotion focus
• 刊名：Social Psychology of Education
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：19
• 期：3
• 页码：607-626
• 全文大小：516 KB
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Education
  Education
  Personality and Social Psychology
  Education and Society
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1928
• 卷排序：19

文摘

Two experiments examined the effects of competition and cooperation contexts, as well as regulatory fit, on reducing the negative influence of stereotype threat. Experiment 1 demonstrated that in high stereotype threat conditions, participants in the cooperation context scored significantly higher on a math test than those in the competition context, while participants in low stereotype threat conditions did not differ in both contexts. Experiment 2 found that under stereotype threat, participants with induced prevention focus scored significantly higher on a math test in the cooperation context than those in the competition context or control group. At the same time, participants with induced promotion foci did not differ between the contexts. Thus, while the cooperation context may counteract the effect of stereotype threat, inducing a promotion focus may create a regulatory fit in the competition context that could also remove the effect of stereotype threat.