Cadinu Mara, Maass Anne, Rosabianca Alessandra, Kiesner Jeff
Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione, Università di Padua, via Venezia 8, 35131 Padua, Italy.
Psychol Sci. 2005 Jul;16(7):572-8. doi: 10.1111/j.0956-7976.2005.01577.x.
This study investigated the role of negative thinking as a potential mediator of performance deficits under stereotype threat. After being assigned to a stereotype-threat or a no-threat condition, 60 female participants were asked to complete a difficult math task. Using the thought-listing technique, women under stereotype threat reported a higher number of negative thoughts specifically related to the test and to mathematics compared with women in the no-threat condition. Moreover, women under stereotype threat also showed a sharp decrease in performance that (a) was most pronounced in the second half of the test and (b) was mediated by the increase in negative thinking.
本研究调查了消极思维作为刻板印象威胁下表现缺陷潜在中介因素的作用。在被分配到刻板印象威胁组或无威胁组后，60名女性参与者被要求完成一项困难的数学任务。使用思维列表技术，与无威胁组的女性相比，处于刻板印象威胁下的女性报告了更多与测试和数学相关的消极思维。此外，处于刻板印象威胁下的女性在表现上也出现了急剧下降，（a）在测试后半段最为明显，（b）由消极思维的增加所介导。
