Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Stereotype threat question?
This question is very broad and obviously would need a lot of studying to understand, but im just curious about it. So people say that there is stereotype threat, that minority groups do worse on certain tests and in certain activities because society thinks that they will do worse(in a nutshell). So couldn't that be said about men and being aggressive? That because men hear about how often men abuse women, or how they are supposed to be tough and fight, whether or not it is true, that they will internalize it and this could lead to them acting aggressively. Because with this argument, you could say that minority groups are making excuses about differences in test scores, the same way a man could make an excuse that it was ok to hit someone, or about abuse?
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