• DOI:10.1037/a0031495
Corpus ID: 3159311

Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat.

@article{Sherman2013DeflectingTT,
  title={Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat.},
  author={D. Sherman and K. Hartson and Kevin Binning and Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Julio Garc{\'i}a and Suzanne Taborsky-Barba and S. Tomassetti and A. Nussbaum and G. Cohen},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2013},
  volume={104 4},
  pages={
          591-618
        }
}

D. Sherman, K. Hartson, +6 authors G. Cohen

Published 2013

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of personality and social psychology

To the extent that stereotype and identity threat undermine academic performance, social psychological interventions that lessen threat could buffer threatened students and improve performance. Two studies, each featuring a longitudinal field experiment in a mixed-ethnicity middle school, examined whether a values affirmation writing exercise could attenuate the achievement gap between Latino American and European American students. In Study 1, students completed multiple self-affirmation (or… CONTINUE READING

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