Year: 2019
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: According to stereotype threat theory, the possibility of confirming a negative group stereotype evokes feelings of threat, leading people to underperform in domains where they are stereotyped as lacking ability. This theory has immense theoretical and practical implications. However, many studies supporting it include small samples and varying operational definitions of “stereotype threat”. We address the first challenge by leveraging a network of psychology labs to recruit a large Black student sample (Nanticipated = 2700) from multiple US sites (Nanticipated = 27). We address the second challenge by identifying three threat-increasing and three threat-decreasing procedures that could plausibly affect performance and use an adaptive Bayesian design to determine which operationalization yields the strongest evidence for underperformance. This project should advance our knowledge of a scientifically and socially important topic: the conditions under which stereotype threat affects performance among current Black students in the United States.
Authors: Valerie Jones Taylor, Daniel Cavagnaro, Neil Anthony Lewis, Hannah Moshontz, Bharathy Premachandra, Deborah Jean Wu, Erin Michelle Buchanan, Heather L. Urry, Glenn Adams, Ting Ai, Karen Akin, Costanza Alessio, Shilaan Alzahawi, Sara Appleby, Subratha Araselvan, Toni Awosika, Trinity Barnes, Carlota Batres, Anais Beauvais, Nuhamin Belihu, Angela C. Bell, Kyle Benbow, Brooke Bennett-Day, India Bland, Arya Bolla, Shruti, Jennifer Bosson, Leanne Boucher, Shannon Therese Brady, Jared Branch, Rebecca Brooks, Sugar Magnolia Buechler, Nick Buttrick, Gabriel Camacho, Christopher R. Chartier, Sanjay K Chhetri, William J. Chopik, Arielle Clarke, Heather M. Claypool, Samaria Coleman, Morgan Collier, W. Matthew Collins, Aries Contreras, Alicia Cunado, Adaora Dadson, Rodica I. Damian, Taylor Demus, Nimrat Dhaliwal, Barnaby Dixson, Rebecca Grace Drake, Sean Duffy, John Edlund, Jacob Elder, Kathleen Feeney, Tamara Franklin, James Walter Fryer, Kiara, Sarah Gaither, Olivia Gerregano, Alia Goldstein, Bryant Nestor Gomez, Sara Goncalves, Allison Graham, Abigail E Graves, Dorainne Jodi-Ann Green, Florian Griese, Jennifer Nadine Gutsell, Amy Hackney, Amanda Hahn, Braeden Forrester Hall, Nick Hall, Madeline Hammer, Cade Hicks, Bianca Marie Hinojosa, Simon Howard, Jennifer Lee Howell, Ariel Igielski, Iris Vilares, Yueyi Jiang, Brielle Johnson, David Charles Johnson, Anna Jones, Shea Joyce, Ines Jurcevic, Sanjana Kadirvel, Melica Kaveh, Nina Kim, Randy Kim, Rita Knasel, Carolyn Kobe, Christopher Koch, Franki Y. H. Kung, Jonathan Kunstman, Samantha Paige Lapka, Jillian E Lauer, Peter Leavitt, Hojun Lee, Alexia Leggin, Olivia Leigh, Carmel Levitan, Katie Lewis, Savannah C Lewis, K. Colin Li, Manyu Li, Runtong Li, Jon Lim, Jackson Lu, Anh Luu, Christine Ma-Kellams, Alicia Macchione, Keith Brian Maddox, Kortney Maedge, Sandra Manfreda, David March, Aimee Y. Mark, Jackson G. Lu, Jessica Martinez, Jes Matsick, Randy J. McCarthy, Alma Melamed, Tanvi Mhapankar, Benoît Monin, Stephanie Morris, Amelia Murphy, Sohad Murrar, Erica Musser, Amy Neal, Lydia M Needy, Jasmine Norman, Nana-Abenaa Nyanor, Syed Muhammad Omar, Laura Pailas, Hye Rim Park, Laura Ruth Parker, Olivia Parks, Lucas Peck, Sylvia Perry, Peter Robert Mallik, Kim Olivia Peters, Rosario Pintos Lobo, Marjorie L. Prokosch, Clyde Raible, Kamila Redd, Jessica D. Remedios, Erika Juanita Rosenberger, Sun Rui, Haniya Rumaney, Abigail Sanders, Anna Sarpong, Kathleen Schmidt, Eunjin Seo, Surizaday Serrano Holden, Erin Sievers, Benjamin Silver, Derek Alexander Simon, Leslie S., Allison Louise Skinner, Eric N Smith, Rosetta Spratt, Mikaela Spruill, Crystal Nicole Steltenpohl, Christian Stephens, Daniel Storage, Brenda Corina Straka, Jude Sullivan, John Tagariello, Rachel Tenenbaum, Dana Theoc, Imani Thomas, Ben Thompson, Emerson Alexander Todd, Natalia Lopez Tome, Selin Toprakkiran, Rebecca R. Totton, Kayla Triplett, Alexa Mary Tullett, Jamie Turcios-Villalta, Allan Tyler, Ariella Uribe, Juan Valladares, Natalie Valles, Jemillie Velez, Jovana Vukovic, Kyle Walker, Samuel Wasmuth, Sophia Watt, Erin Corwin Westgate, Lucien Whitman, Aaron Lee Wichman, Jules Wideman, Brenton Wiernik, Shaun Wiley, Liana Willis, John Paul Wilson, Leigh Wilton, Katelyn Wo, Calista Wong, Shelby Wynn, Christy Ye, David Scott Yeager, Roger Thomas Young, Anna Zhang, Katherine Zhang, Qichen Zhao, Yinqing, David Zimmerman, Merve Nur Şahin, Patrick S. Forscher
Institutions: Lehigh University, California State University, Fullerton, Cornell University, Duke University, Missouri State University, Tufts University, Mercer University, Mercer University Health Sciences Center, Wesleyan College, University of Houston, Michigan State University, Indiana University, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Merced, The Graduate Center, CUNY, City University of New York, York College, Purdue University System, Purdue University West Lafayette, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Southern Indiana, Florida International University, Occidental College, Center for Open Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, The Ohio State University, University of Denver, Université Grenoble Alpes
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
Awards: Neuroimaging meta-analytics for addiction: Nodes, networks,and new heuristics, G3627321748, A Belonging Intervention to Improve STEM Outcomes for Women and Underrepresented Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial at 22 Colleges, NCS-FO: Integrative Knowledge Modeling in Cognitive Neuroimaging, CAREER SBP Creating Equitable STEM Environments: A Multi-Method Contextual Approach to Mitigating Social Identity Threat Among Women in STEM
OpenAlex ID: W4410632436