PSYC12H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Rejection, Mass Number, Hypothesis
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Chapter 2: the role of situational cues in signaling and maintaining stereotype threat. The role of cues and vigilance in stereotype threat. Person has multiple social identities (gender, age, race etc) When situational cues signal identity"s value in a setting, that particular group membership becomes more salient & a vigilance process is initiated. During the vigilance phase, attention is directed to other situational cues to determine whether the identity may be a liability. If cues disconfirm , vigilance relaxes but if situational cues confirm vigilance increases. Math, science, and engineering (mse: study: male & female mse majors watched a video advertising a prestigious mse summer conference. Gender ration either 3 men & 1 woman or balanced ratio: measured participants" psychological & physiological vigilance. Women who watched the 3:1 video reported less feeling of belonging. Were highly vigilant compared to women who watched gender balanced video. These women remembered more details of video & had faster <3 rate and sweatier palms.
