Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap¶
Cohen, G. L., Garcia, J., Apfel, N., & Master, A. (2006). Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A Social-Psychological Intervention. Science, 313(5791), 1307-1310.
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Domain-specific¶
- Stereotype Threat
- the self-affirmation buffer (affirmations of valued non-threatened identities reduce threat responsivity),
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Abstract states the intervention tested whether psychological threat could be lessened by students reaffirming self-integrity, but reports grade gains, not threat responsivity.
“We tested whether such psychological threat could be lessened by having students reaffirm their sense of personal adequacy or “self-integrity.””
- the self-affirmation buffer (affirmations of valued non-threatened identities reduce threat responsivity),
Mechanisms¶
- Values-Affirmation Reflection
- This is the applied form of self-affirmation theory: reflecting on unrelated core values buffers the self against a threat in one domain, and brief values-affirmation writing has narrowed identity-linked performance gaps in field settings.
This sourceIn two randomized school field experiments, brief writing about personally important values buffered psychological threat and reduced the racial achievement gap.
- This is the applied form of self-affirmation theory: reflecting on unrelated core values buffers the self against a threat in one domain, and brief values-affirmation writing has narrowed identity-linked performance gaps in field settings.
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