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Article Dans Une Revue Basic and Applied Social Psychology Année : 2008

Investigating Physiological and Self-Reported Mediators of Stereotype Lift Effects on a Motor Task

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Achievement gaps between social groups may result from stereotype threat effects but also from stereotype lift effects – the performance boost caused by the awareness that an outgroup is negatively stereotyped. We examined stereotype lift and threat effects in the motor domain and investigated their mediation by task involvement and self-confidence. Physiological (heart rate reactivity) and self-reported indices were used to examine these questions. Males and females performed a balance task about which negative stereotypes about either males or females were given. No gender information was given in a third (control) condition. Results showed no stereotype threat but a stereotype lift effect, participants performing significantly better after negative outgroup stereotypes were explicitly linked to performance on the balance task compared to the other conditions. Concerning males, this effect was mediated by higher self-confidence and task involvement. The implications of these results for understanding the gender inequalities in sports and physical activities are discussed.
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Aïna Chalabaev, Jeff Stone, Philippe Sarrazin, Jean-Claude Croizet. Investigating Physiological and Self-Reported Mediators of Stereotype Lift Effects on a Motor Task. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2008, 30, pp.18-26. ⟨10.1080/01973530701665256⟩. ⟨hal-00389831⟩
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