Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Issues of Our Time)
By Claude M. Steele.
Description
Acclaimed social psychologist Claude Steele offers an insider’s look at his groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity. Through dramatic personal stories, Claude Steele shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes―merely reminding a group of female math majors about to take a math test, for example, that women are considered naturally inferior to men at math―impairs their performance in the area affected by the stereotype. Steele’s conclusions shed new light on a host of American social phenomena, from the racial a...
ISBN(s)
039306249X, 9780393062496
