The girls in his class subsequently experience anxiety when practicing and presenting speeches in class. The girls are responding to a threat of stereotyping.
The term "stereotype danger" refers to "a socially based psychological threat that occurs when one is in a position or behaves in a manner that is congruent with a negative stereotype about one's group."
For instance, unfavorable preconceptions of women as being less capable mathematicians can really have a detrimental impact on female students' performance on the exam when they are given a math exam and told that the exam is diagnostic of their own intellectual ability.
Stereotype danger is a phenomena that happens when a person has the chance—or the perception that she has the chance—to confirm or satisfy an unfavorable stereotype about a group to which she belongs.
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