Stereotype Reactants

Sometimes when people face a stereotype, they actually become motivated to disprove it. Most of the performance interfering effects of stereotype threat are mediated by stereotype reactants where you're trying too hard. We looked at this with regard to professional women. I think I used the term over-efforting. Just taking on almost too much to stereotype reactants to just prove the stereotype. It becomes a weight of its own in a person's life and on their performances.