@article{ref1,
title="'Be prepared': An implemental mindset for alleviating social-identity threat",
journal="British journal of social psychology",
year="2014",
author="Dennehy, Tara C. and Ben-Zeev, Avi and Tanigawa, Noriko",
volume="53",
number="3",
pages="585-594",
abstract="Stereotype threat occurs when people who belong to socially devalued groups experience a fear of negative evaluation, which interferes with the goal of staying task focused. The current study was designed to examine whether priming socially devalued individuals with an implemental (vs. a deliberative) mindset, characterized by forming a priori goal-directed plans, would help these individuals to overcome threat-induced distracting states. Participants from low and high socioeconomic status backgrounds (measured by maternal education; SESm ) completed a speeded mental arithmetic test, an intellectually threatening task. Low-SESm individuals performed comparably and exhibited similar confidence levels to high-SESm counterparts only when induced with an implemental mindset, suggesting that implemental mindset priming may help to create equity in the face of stereotype threat.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0144-6665",
doi="10.1111/bjso.12071",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12071"
}