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The Threat of Confirming a Stereotype
The threat of confirming a stereotype is enough to interfere with working memory, executive function. It shifts attention away from actually doing the task and toward worrying about how well am I doing it? A lot of worrying, fretting is going on. These days there's a pretty substantial literature, as you may know, on what precisely the mediating processes are.