As per Steele and Aronson’s study conducted in 1995, it was introduced that a stereotype threat is the ideology of being at risk of negative conformant and characterisation based on ones self and/or social group.
The phenomenon of a stereotype threats is widely incorporated into society in order to influence or impact an outcome and/ or performance. A stereotype threat can play a positive or a negative role in the standard intellectual and cognitive assessments of a group. However, these stereotypical threats predominantly carry negative connotations that allow individuals of a group to conform to the negative stereotypes associated with their self or social group.
The psychological and behavioural outcomes of an individual can be significantly altered as a result
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Cadinu, Maass, Rosabianca, and Kiesner (2005) examined women’s math performance when gender differences in math problem solving were either highlighted
The result ascertained reflected the notion that stereotype threats are predominantly present in the generalised minority that are predisposition to believe that their ability to achieve a higher result based on their context is much poorer than that of the men and are therefore confined to that sentiment that effects their willingness to perform and achieve desirable results that are a testament to their ability rather than their role and position in society as a woman.
Not all groups are conformed to the negativity associated with stereotyped threats, however majority of the time groups that are presented with test that measure their intellectual and cognitive ability based on standardised assessments do fall a prey to the consequences of these stereotyped threats.
Lowered performance expectations
Related to negative thoughts and emotions are low expectations. If individuals expect to