Question

• What steps could be taken to change the influence that stereotype threats have within a cultural group?

Answer 1

The experience of concern about being evaluated based on negative stereotypes about ones group is called syeretype threat. Some of these steps that could be taken are

• Learning about the variability which exists among the people in a group.
• Being induced to take the perspective of a person from a stereotyped group.
• Learning that race is more ambigous and socially detrmined than simply a genetic, fixed category.
• Thinking of multiculturalism as an approach that is iclusive of everyone including the majority group.