The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Double-Minority Status on the Test Performance of Latino Women

@article{Gonzales2002TheEO,
  title={The Effects of Stereotype Threat and Double-Minority Status on the Test Performance of Latino Women},
  author={Patricia M. Gonzales and Hart Blanton and Kevin J. Williams},
  journal={Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin},
  year={2002},
  volume={28},
  pages={659 - 670},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145288537}
}
This study investigated the interactive influences of diagnosticity instructions, gender, and ethnicity as they related to task performance. In a laboratory experiment of 120 male and female, Latino and White college students, both a gender-based and an ethnicity-based stereotype-threat effect were found to influence performance on a test of mathematical and spatial ability. Closer inspection revealed that the gender effect was qualified by ethnicity, whereas the ethnicity effect was not… 
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