Self Fulfilling Stereotypes

The article “How a Self Fulfilling Stereotype Can Drag Your down Performance” main’s concept is to show the common negative stereotypes and how they can affect you. The author Shankar Vedantam shows the concept by giving real life examples. Such as how if a man and women have the same SAT score, that the man is more likely to be chosen due to the greater success he may produce rather than the women. The author then goes to defend against these stereotypes with statistics that shut down the other side of argument. The author continues with this throughout the article

The article goes on to prove that the more people hear negativity and false things about them the more it brings them down. Emotionally, Mentally, and Physically it can affect

these people after hearing such wrong things about them. The article states that “When people are threatened by a negative stereotype, they are subtly biased to live out the stereotype”. This means that the more people hear this, the true these negative stereotypes are becoming.

This article goes on to say that the situations in which stereotypes occur are in public, at school, and even at work. These stereotypes singly pick out on one's emotions and cause that person to feel to feel out of place. Then there's some that stand up and show their emotions but there are others who keep to themselves and tend to live out the stereotypes. But what empowers the people to simply ignore it is their family, and loved ones who know them best and know that these are simply just comments out in society that people don't even think about when they say it so it doesn't effect them as much. That is what article is trying to truly convey.