Coping with stereotype threat: Denial as an impression management strategy
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2005Author
von Hippel, William
von Hippel, Courtney
Conway, Leanne
Preacher, Kristopher J.
Schooler, Jonathan W.
Radvansky, Gabriel A.
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Four experiments tested the hypothesis that people who are concerned with impression management cope with stereotype threat through denial. Consistent with this hypothesis, temporary employees threatened by a stereotype of incompetence (Study 1) and hostel-dwelling older adults (Study 2) were more likely to deny incompetence if they were high in impression management. African Americans (Study 3) showed a similar pattern of denying cognitive incompetence, which emerged primarily when they were interviewed by a White experimenter and had attended a predominantly Black high school. In Study 4, White students who expected to take an IQ test and were threatened by a stereotype of being less intelligent than Asians were more likely to deny that intelligence is important if they were high in impression management.
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89, 22-35.
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