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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  1. ^ "Joshua Aronson". Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Stereotype threat widens achievement gap". American Psychological Association. 2006-07-15. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  4. ^ Viadero, Debra (2007-10-24). "Experiments Aim to Ease Effects of 'Stereotype Threat'". Education Week. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  5. ^ McNamara, Melissa P. (2004). "In Fighting Stereotypes, Students Lift Test Scores". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-09-30.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Tough, Paul. "The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas: Social Science". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2017-09-30.

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