Small interventions can alleviate underperformance caused by stereotype threat
Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 20:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Picture black and white students at an Ivy League college learning about black students who are a year or so ahead of them in that school. They're told that the older black students were anxious about fitting in and how they would be viewed in college when they first arrived. But as the older black students got more involved in campus life, they began to find the school rewarding, even exciting as their life course took shape.