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You will do better if I watch : anonymity, indentifiability and audience effects in a stereotype threat situation.

dc.contributor.advisorQuayle, Michael Frank.
dc.contributor.authorForbes, Jared Daryn.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-24T06:51:59Z
dc.date.available2010-08-24T06:51:59Z
dc.date.created2009
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionThesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe current study examined stereotype threat or lift (STL) in terms of various elements of social identity theory. STL occurs when a negative stereotype (or positive stereotype) about a group leads to a decrease (or increase) in performance on a task that the group identifies with. The primary focus was the relationship between STL and identifiability, whereby identifiability refers to whether one views one‟s self as an individual or as an anonymous part of a social group. The study examined STL in relation to humanities and science students‟ ability to recognise patterns using two short forms of the Raven‟s Advanced Progressive Matrices (APM) which was developed. The students completed matrices under two conditions; anonymity and visibility to an audience (in-group, out-group and experimenter). When visible, participants performed significantly better than when anonymous, regardless of the STL condition. When examining in-group identification, participants with high in-group identification experienced traditional STL effects while participants with low in-group identification experienced a reversal in effects.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/535
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectStereotypes (Social psychology)en_US
dc.subjectSocial perception.en_US
dc.subjectTask analysis.en_US
dc.subjectGroup processes.en_US
dc.subjectSocial behaviour.en_US
dc.subjectTheses--Psychology.en_US
dc.titleYou will do better if I watch : anonymity, indentifiability and audience effects in a stereotype threat situation.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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