{"id":"https://openalex.org/G1816630176","display_name":"Stereotype threat and aggressive reaction","description":"The present research aims to investigate the link between stereotype threat and aggressive reactions. Stereotype threat refers to the apprehension, fear or anxiety that individuals may have when they find themselves in situations where their behavior or performance could be judged using the (negative) stereotype of their group. A black person, for instance, may experience this threat when he or she has to complete a task presented as an intelligence test, as this may activate the stereotype that Blacks are less intelligent than Whites. Studies have shown that the perception of this threat leads to a decrease in real performance of the individual members. The present research examines aggressive reactions as a possible consequence of stereotype threat. With few exceptions, past studies have focused on the effects of stereotype threat on performance. Yet, as Shapiro and Neuberg (2007) proposed, stereotype threat may have negative consequences in domains other than performance on a test. We wish to investigate whether stereotype threat may also activate thoughts related to aggression, emotions associated with aggression and aggressive behaviors in individuals who perceive/experience the threat. To illustrate, imagine students from a low Socio Economic background who have to take a standardized test. The stereotype of low SE students having low(er) intellectual abilities (Croizet & Claire, 1998) may be salient and induce apprehension that they will be judged according to the negative stereotype of their group. This could lead to a performance that is lower than otherwise would have been when the threat is not perceived. However, the students may also display aggressive behaviors such as kicking the desk and pushing another student on the way out, have more aggressive thoughts such as harming the teacher or insulting another student and feel aggression-related emotions such as anger. It is these consequences that we will look at, which extend the impact of stereotype threat beyond performance per se. Since stereotype threat has been evoked as possibly having wide ranging consequences (from performance on a single test to career choices of individuals, see Steele & Aronson, 1995), it is indeed surprising that little work has been devoted to other possible negative consequences, unrelated to performance, of the threat. In this research, we aim to examine the following questions: Is aggression a possible consequence of stereotype threat? If yes, is aggression likely to be observed among members of groups stereotyped as relatively more aggressive or among all individuals experiencing stereotype threat and thus represents a more general response? Furthermore, we aim to determine if specific emotions mediate aggressive reaction to stereotype threats, via the manipulation of the types of stereotype threat. Specifically, emotions that result may differ if an individual perceives himself or herself as the target of threat (i.e., that their performance indicates they themselves are characterized by the stereotypical characteristic of their group) vs the group as the target (i.e., that their performance will contribute to the negative reputation of their group as a whole). The perception of the self as target of threat is likely to lead to fear-related emotions, whereas the perception of the group as target is likely to lead to anger-related emotions. It is probable that aggressive reaction is associated with the perception of group as target, and mediated by the emotion anger that this situations evokes in individuals.","funder_award_id":"ANR-16-CE41-0009","funder":{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320320883","display_name":"Agence Nationale de la Recherche","doi":"10.13039/501100001665"},"funded_outputs":["https://openalex.org/W4327713520","https://openalex.org/W4409455523","https://openalex.org/W7138906213"],"funded_outputs_count":3,"parent_awards":[],"sub_awards":[],"sub_awards_count":0,"amount":147674.8,"currency":"EUR","amount_usd":164819.84,"amount_usd_basis":"daily_rate","recipients":[],"recipient_countries":[],"recipient_regions":[],"research_scope":{"is_research":true,"basis":"funder_default","tier":1},"funding_type":"research","funder_scheme":"AAPG2016","start_date":"2016-10-01","end_date":null,"start_year":2016,"end_year":null,"landing_page_url":"https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-16-CE41-0009","doi":null,"provenance":"anr_opendata","lead_investigator":{"given_name":"Baptiste","family_name":"SUBRA","orcid":null,"role_start":null,"affiliation":{"name":"Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux","country":"France","ids":null}},"co_lead_investigator":null,"investigators":null,"works_api_url":"https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=awards.id:G1816630176","primary_topic":null,"topics":null,"institution_awarded":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I15057530","display_name":"Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux","ror":"https://ror.org/057qpr032","country_code":"FR","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I15057530"]}],"updated_date":"2026-10-16T03:01:01.000Z","created_date":"2026-09-10T23:08:02.000Z"}