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Research ArticleOpen accessPhrase in the titleGender, Stereotype Threat and Mathematics Test ScoresMing Tsui, Xiao Y. Xu, Edmond VenatorProblem statement: Stereotype threat has repeatedly been shown to depress women’s scores on difficult math tests. An attempt to replicate these findings in China found no support for the stereotype threat hypothesis. Our math test was characterized as being personally important for the student participants, an atypical condition in most stereotype threat laboratory research. Approach: To evaluate the effects of … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 7, Issue 4 · 16 Aug 2011 · 8,815 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractRacialization of Drug Use and Gang Involvement: Racial Crime Stereotype of Minorities, Fear of Crime and the Impact of SexVeronica M. Ahadzie, Robert L. PeraltaThis study examines how racialized crime and drug stereotypes of African Americans and Hispanics affect the fear of crime. Based on racial threat theory, which argues that members of the majority racial group perceive the increasing minority group population as threatening, and labeling theory, which argues that labeling someone as "deviant" reinforces that behavior and affects how they are treated, … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 20, Issue 1 · 2 Jan 2025 · 5,593 accessesView PDF Cite