Joshua Michael Aronson is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
's
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. He is known for his pioneering work on
stereotype threat
Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which people are or feel themselves to be at risk of conforming to stereotypes about their social group. It is theorized to be a contributing factor to long-standing racial and gender gaps in acad ...
, which he conducted in the 1990s along with
Claude Steele and
Steven Spencer. This work has shown that female, minority, and low-income children are stereotyped as performing worse on
standardized tests, and that when they are taught to overcome these stereotypes, their standardized test scores improve. He also co-authored a study in 2009 in which he reported no evidence that African Americans' test scores had improved as a result of the election of
Barack Obama
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as
President of the United States
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the previous year.
References
External links
Faculty pageProfile
at Social Psychology Network
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American social psychologists
Living people
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development faculty
Princeton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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