PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Electroencephalography, Longitudinal Study, Meta-Analysis
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Short term: prompt efforts to cope, drains cognitive resources. These identity safe environments convey to individuals that their stigmatized social identities pose no barrier. One thing all of the other putative mediators have in common is that they tax executive control, the cornerstone resource needed for skilled performance in virtually any challenging information-processing task. Ability to control such impulses is critical and compromised by ego depletion. Female participants took a difficult math test and half of them received instructions to reappraise the situation and test neutrally and objectively, as if they were professional test evaluators. Other half of participants were given no further instruction about how to cope with the situation and presumably engaged in the resource-depleting coping strategy typical of those under threat suppressing emotions and cognitions. When no longer in the threatening situation, participants completed a competitive reaction time task against their partner.
