Joshua_Aronson

Joshua Aronson

Joshua Aronson

American social psychologist

Joshua Michael Aronson is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.[1] He is known for his pioneering work on stereotype threat, which he conducted in the 1990s along with Claude Steele and Steven Spencer.[2][3][4] This work has shown that female, minority, and low-income children are stereotyped as performing worse on standardized tests, and that when they are taught to overcome these stereotypes, their standardized test scores improve.[5] He also co-authored a study in 2009 in which he reported no evidence that African Americans' test scores had improved as a result of the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States the previous year.[6][7]

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    "Joshua Aronson". Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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    Hartocollis, Anemona (2016-06-26). "Tutors See Stereotypes and Gender Bias in SAT. Testers See None of the Above". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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    "Stereotype threat widens achievement gap". American Psychological Association. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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    Viadero, Debra (2007-10-24). "Experiments Aim to Ease Effects of 'Stereotype Threat'". Education Week. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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    McNamara, Melissa P. (2004). "In Fighting Stereotypes, Students Lift Test Scores". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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    Aronson, Joshua; Jannone, Sheana; McGlone, Matthew; Johnson-Campbell, Tanisha (2009). "The Obama effect: An experimental test". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45 (4): 957–960. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.006.
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    Tough, Paul. "The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas: Social Science". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
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