Whistling Vivaldi : and other clues to how stereotypes affect us / Claude M. Steele.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steele, Claude
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2010], ©2010.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Issues of our time (W.W. Norton & Company)
Subjects:
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Group identity.
Discrimination.
Local Note:
LM copies are part of the Professional Development Lending Library.
Physical Description:xii, 242 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A surprising connection between identity and performance
  • Can stereotypes impair performance in more than one group, and in the strongest among them?
  • Contingencies of threat: in the lives of Anatole Broyard and Amin Maalouf, and in our own lives
  • Stereotype threat in everyone's life
  • The efforting life
  • The racing mind; or, the mind on stereotype threat
  • It's the cues that determine the strength of identity threat
  • Reducing identity threat in college
  • The distance between us: what causes it and how to bridge it.