PSYC12H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Erving Goffman, Stereotype Threat, Infant Mortality
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In other words, although devaluing and withdrawing effort from domains in which one is negatively stereotyped and treated unjustly may protect self- esteem, it may come at the cost of success in those domains. Being the only women in a room of men doing a math test: personal characteristics, ex. United states): but, a meta-analysis of racial differences in self-report measures of personal self- esteem showed no support for this prediction, personal self-esteem, african americans > white americans > latino americans > asian americans & 2: collective self-esteem: african americans, latino americans, and asian. Americans > white americans: research assessing self-esteem with implicit measures (reaction time, unconscious biases), however, tells a different story, collective self-esteem: white > latino, asian, and african americans (ashburn- 2002): the picture is similarly complicated with regard to non-racial stigmas. In short, results are inconsistent: the perceived controllability (and thus justifyability) of the stigma seems to predict personal self-esteem.
