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DOI: 10.1177/014616702237644 © 2002 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. Consuming Images: How Television Commercials that Elicit Stereotype Threat Can Restrain Women Academically and ProfessionallyStanford University, pgdavies{at}psych.stanford.edu
University of Waterloo
University of Connecticut
Florida State University Women in quantitative fields risk being personally reduced to negative stereotypes that allege a sex-based math inability. This situational predicament, termed stereotype threat, can undermine women’s performance and aspirations in all quantitative domains. Gender-stereotypic television commercials were employed in three studies to elicit the female stereotype among both men and women. Study 1 revealed that only women for whom the activated stereotype was self-relevant underperformed on a subsequent math test. Exposure to the stereotypic commercials led women taking an aptitude test in Study 2 to avoid math items in favor of verbal items. In Study 3, women who viewed the stereotypic commercials indicated less interest in educational/vocational options in which they were susceptible to stereotype threat (i.e., quantitative domains) and more interest in fields in which they were immune to stereotype threat (i.e., verbal domains).
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