Effects of attachment security priming on women's math performance.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Activating people's sense of attachment security can buffer against psychological threats. Here we tested whether security priming can also buffer the adverse effects of stereotype threat among women.

Method

Three studies (a pilot study (N = 79 women, 72 men), a laboratory study; N = 474 women, and an online study; N = 827 women) compared security priming to neutral and positive affect priming.

Results

The pilot study revealed that women exposed to attachment security primes (e.g., the word "love") had better math performance than women exposed to neutral primes (e.g., "boat"). Men's math performance did not differ across priming conditions. Study 1 revealed that women showed better math performance in the attachment security priming

SUBMITTER: Soares De Almeida A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10484519 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature