title: Coping with stereotype threat: denial as an impression management strategy.
abstract: Four experiments tested the hypothesis that people who are concerned with impression management cope with stereotype threat through denial. Consistent with this hypothesis, temporary employees threatened by a stereotype of incompetence (Study 1) and hostel-dwelling older adults (Study 2) were more likely to deny incompetence if they were high in impression management. African Americans (Study 3) showed a similar pattern of denying cognitive incompetence, which emerged primarily when they were interviewed by a White experimenter and had attended a predominantly Black high school. In Study 4, White students who expected to take an IQ test and were threatened by a stereotype of being less intelligent than Asians were more likely to deny that intelligence is important if they were high in impression management.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. w.vonhippel@unsw.edu.au
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: von Hippel
authors.forename: Courtney
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: von Hippel
authors.forename: Leanne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Conway
authors.forename: Kristopher J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Preacher
authors.forename: Jonathan W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Schooler
authors.forename: Gabriel A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Radvansky
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001315:Australia; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D016743:Mental Competency; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009820:Ohio; D011361:Professional Competence; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013240:Stereotyping; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology