Private Threating Enviroments

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Private Threatening Environments 1
Running head : THE IMPLICATIONS OF THREATENING EVIRONMENTS ON INTELLECTUAL PROCESSING

















Do High-Achieving Female Students Underperforming in Private? The Implications of
Threating Environments on Intellectual Processing










Alcorn State University













Private Threatening Environments 2

Ben-Zeev, T & Inzlicht, M. (2003). Do High-Achieving Female Students Underperforming in
Private The Implications of Threatening Eviornments on Intellectual Processing. Journal of Educational Psychology

Summary of Article

Education statiatics show that a very small amount of women are in the field of math and science. Although women represent over half of the student body, they are a small percentage that graduate in math and science. (National Science Foundation,200). The authors look at the question, how under representation of females reflect gender makeup, tokenism, and stereotypes in classrooms. It can also explain how females perform under the pressure of negative stereotypes in math and science. The authors make an argument that the females in a group adds the awareness of ones gender which increases negative stereotypes associated with that. The authors indentify that the females who cared the most about doing seemed to be affected the most by the pressures of stereotypes.

In this study the authors examine how the students performed or unperformed in a private or public setting. The authors concentrated on females who were identified as being good in math. They attempted to evaluate the female students and how they affected by situations and stereotypes. The authors did a good job of getting data by controlled evaluation and other accurate research information already available. The research leans to the assumption that work in public adds pressure to the threat of stereoty...