成见威胁

成见威胁（英语：stereotype threat）是指一个人在某种环境里，会担忧或焦虑自己的行为，将会验证那些对于自己所属社会群体的负面刻板印象，而这种焦虑将会影响该人的表现，使得他的表现变差。成见威胁于1995年被引进至学术界上，从此成为社会心理学范畴上经常被目。

成见威胁（此处简写为ST者，其中high ST为成见威胁高的情况；low ST为成见威胁度低的情况；Number of correct answers是答对的题数；蓝方块是男生在两种情境下各别的表现；红圈圈是女生在两种情境下各别的表现）对女生和男生数学分数造成的影响。资料取自奥斯玻恩（Osborne）（2007）。

对表现的影响

有超过三百篇已出版的研究，都在多个领域里发现了成见威胁对表现的影响。成见威胁是否会出现和任务是被贴上何种标签有关。如果任务被贴上中性的标签，那成见威胁就较不会出现；然而若测验附有与既有成见相合的内容的话，那参与者就有可能会有较差的表现。像例如对西洋棋下棋者的研究显示，若女性参与这被告知说对手是男性的话，她们的表现就会比预期的来得差；相反地，若女性参与这被告知对手是女性的话，其表现就会和依过去纪录所预期的一致。被提醒说“女性在西洋棋方面的表现比男性差”这样的刻板印象的女性参与者，其表现会较差。

参考文献

来源

• Aronson, E., Wilson, T.D., & Akert, A.M. (2005). Social Psychology (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
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延伸阅读

• Inzlicht, Michael; Schmader, Toni. Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application. Oxford University Press. 2011 [2020-12-12]. ISBN 9780199732449. （原始内容存档于2021-03-08）. 
• Gladwell, Malcolm. The Art of Failure: Why some people choke and others panic. The New Yorker. 21 August 2000 [29 May 2011]. （原始内容存档于14 May 2011）. 
• Walton, Gregory M.; Murphy, Mary C.; Ryan, Ann Marie. Stereotype rhreat in organizations: implications for equity and performance. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. April 2015, 2: 523–550. doi:10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-032414-111322. 
• Pruysers, Scott; Blais, Julie. Why won't Lola run? An experiment examining stereotype threat and political ambition. Politics & Gender. June 2017, 13 (2): 232–252. doi:10.1017/S1743923X16000544. 
• Spencer SJ, Logel C, Davies PG. Stereotype Threat. Annual Review of Psychology. January 2016, 67: 415–37. PMID 26361054. doi:10.1146/annurev-psych-073115-103235. 

外部链接

• American Psychology Association statement: "Stereotype Threat Widens Achievement Gap" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• "Understanding Stereotype Threat" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） from University of California, Berkeley
• "Reducing Stereotype Threat" （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） from Washington University in St. Louis