Psychology
How stereotypes can hurt your test score
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Stereotype threat is a brutal psychological self-sabotage triggered directly by society. If you remind individuals of a negative stereotype regarding their demographic right before a test, the anxiety of potentially confirming that stereotype completely consumes their working memory. The stress literally throttles their cognitive capacity, causing performance to plummet.
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