PSY333H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Allostatic Load, Stereotype Threat, Implicit Stereotype
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Where the person perceived themselves to be in society. Study of when a stereotype is activated for a person, then you make them write a test or perform something (with the stereotype in mind) causes the stereotype to affect their performance. For instance, when a paper asks to state ethnicity or race it activates a stereotype. We all have biases regarding certain groups. Individuals who had rated themselves high in ses had good gre scores while those with low ses had plummeting gre scores because of activated stereotype threat with increasing levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines like interleukin-6. Implicit stereotype threat can be activated through filling out questions about race and gender. Low ses: proinflammatory il-6 increases when test is diagnostic, proinflammatory il-6 decreases when test is not diagnostic. High ses: proinflammatory il-6 stays the same regardless of whether the test is diagnostic or not. This shows that stereotyping can change the way your immune system behaves.
