SynthesisPloS one2016
Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators.
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 304 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unpacking mathematical gender stereotypes: trends and directions from 25 years of research.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of the Consequences of Stigma and Stereotype Threat for Individuals With Specific Learning Disabilities.Journal of learning disabilitiesPooled it
- Influence of Role Expectancy on Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Patients With Migraine: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Brains over beauty: A preregistered test of the effects of objectification on women's cognitive performance.PloS one · 2023Trial
- Measurement bias for age, sex, and years of education in selected RDoC tasks.Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology · 2026Article
- In here and out there: Evidence that age-related differences in memory specificity are attenuated in natural social conversations.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2026Article
- Impact of awareness of genetic status on cognitive, behavioral, and neuropsychiatric outcomes in genetic frontotemporal dementia.Journal of neurology · 2026Article
- The Effect of Stereotype Threat on Aggressive Reactions.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Pre-Medical Pathway Program Containing Strengths-Based Innovations.Perspectives on medical education · 2026Article
- Age-based stereotype threat and intention to work beyond retirement age: testing the indirect effect through stress.International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health · 2025Article
- Effects of gender stereotype threat on motor performance, cognitive anxiety, and gaze behavior: highlighting the role of context.Cognitive processing · 2025Article
- Highlighting Counterstereotypical Scientists in Undergraduate Life Science Courses.CBE life sciences education · 2025Article
- How Stereotype Threat Influences Cognitive Performance: It All Depends on How You Feel!International review of social psychology · 2025Article
- Do Performance Goals and Fixed Mindset Explicate the Relations Between Stereotype Threat and Achievement? Examining Differences Between Racially Marginalized and White Students in STEM.Learning and individual differences · 2024Article
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- A multidimensional gender analysis of health technology self-efficacy among people with Parkinson's disease.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- Would You Rather: Quantifying Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor Perceptions of Functional Status Through Their Surrogates.Annals of surgery · 2024Article
- Stereotype Threat and Gender Bias in Internal Medicine Residency: It is Still Hard to be in Charge.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- Age-based stereotype threat effects on dynamic balance in healthy older adults.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized into affective/subjective (n = 6), cognitive (n = 7) and motivational mechanisms (n = 4). Empirical support was accrued for mediators such as anxiety, negative thinking, and mind-wandering, which are suggested to co-opt working memory resources under stereotype threat. Other research points to the assertion that stereotype threatened individuals may be motivated to disconfirm negative stereotypes, which can have a paradoxical effect of hampering performance. However, stereotype threat appears to affect diverse social groups in different ways, with no one mediator providing unequivocal empirical support. Underpinned by the multi-threat framework, the discussion postulates that different forms of stereotype threat may be mediated by distinct mechanisms.
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