Laurie T. O’Brien

TL;DR: This chapter addresses the psychological effects of social stigma by reviewing and organizing recent theory and empirical research within an identity threat model of stigma, which posits that situational cues, collective representations of one's stigma status, and personal beliefs and motives shape appraisals of the significance of stigma-relevant situations for well-being.

TL;DR: The authors reconceptualized the source of motivation to suppress prejudice in terms of identifying with new reference groups and adapting oneself to fit new norms, and found that high suppressors are strong norm followers.

TL;DR: An experiment tested the hypothesis that telling participants that a math test they are about to take is known to have gender differences would cause stereotype threat in women but not in men, and results were consistent with an arousal-based explanation of stereotype threat effects.

TL;DR: Findings support the idea that perceiving discrimination against one's ingroup threatens the worldview of individuals who believe that status in society is earned but confirms the worldview in individuals who do not.

TL;DR: Results show that the IAT provided theoretically meaningful insights into age differences in social cognitions that the explicit measures did not, supporting the value of the I AT in aging research and illustrating that age-related slowing must be considered in analysis and interpretation of IAT measures.