Claiming the validity of negative in-group stereotypes when foreseeing a challenge : a self-handicapping account

• Main Authors: Kim, Hakkyun, Lee, Kyoungmi, Hong, Ying-Yi.
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97742; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12131
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This research proposes a self-handicapping process in which people proactively endorse negative in-group stereotypes when there is the prospect of failure in a task. In Experiment 1, we found that women were more likely to endorse the math-gender stereotype stigmatizing their gender group when they...