Questions & Answers: What is stereotype threat?
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Thus stereotype threat has a disconcerting psychological component: a special kind of self-consciousness that is distracting, engenders anxiety, and interferes with the flexible and creative application of intellectual capacities. The best-known victims of stereotype threat are African American students burdened with racial prejudice, and women in technical fields.
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