This experiment involved highly math-identified women
who completed a difficult math test in a room either
with two females or two male accomplices of the
experimenter who posed as fellow test-takers. Half
the women were led to believe that their scores would be
shared at the end of the testing session, and half were
told that their scores would be anonymous both to the
fellow students and the experimenter. Analyses of
the math scores showed that women performed more poorly
in the presence of the males, and this was true
regardless of whether the scores were private or were to
be shared. This study shows that stereotype threat
can occur even when the behavior under consideration
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