Brilliance-oriented contexts heighten anxiety among intellectually stigmatized students¶
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q2 i? Students from low-SES backgrounds experienced more anxiety than higher-SES peers when imagining a brilliance-oriented versus effort-oriented university. → Christina A. Bauer 2025
Evidence¶
Christina A. Bauer 2025¶
Christina A. Bauer, Aashna Poddar, Eddie Brummelman, & Andrei Cimpian. (2025). The Brilliance–Belonging Model: How Cultural Beliefs About Intellectual Ability Undermine Educational Equity. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-025-10034-2
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The review reports, citing Bauer et al. (2023), a study of university students from the USA, the UK, and Germany in which anticipated anxiety was partially explained by self-perceptions of low intellectual belonging. It also cites Bian et al. (2018a, 2018b) on women's heightened anxiety in brilliance-oriented hypothetical jobs.
"students from low-SES backgrounds experienced more anxiety than their peers from higher-SES backgrounds when they imagined attending a brilliance-oriented (vs. an effort-oriented) university"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Academic Anxiety — outcome: instruction changes it
- Stereotype Threat — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it
Related Claims¶
- Perceived biased treatment linked to brilliance-oriented FABs explains a substantial portion of the gender gap in entry into brilliance-oriented fields — related
- Brilliance cues reduce stigmatized students' interest and intrinsic motivation, with effects emerging by age 6–7 and persisting into adulthood — related
- Brilliance stereotypes associating brilliance with boys, higher-SES, and White children emerge by age 6 — related
- Endorsement of brilliance-oriented FABs predicts lower self-efficacy among stigmatized students in brilliance-oriented contexts — related
- Field-specific ability beliefs are consensual cultural beliefs, acquired by early elementary school, that associate brilliance with fields like math more than language fields — related
- The authors interpret stereotype threat as a partial explanation for the standardized-test achievement gap between low- and high-SES students — related
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Brilliance-oriented contexts heighten anxiety among intellectually stigmatized students |
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Brilliance-oriented contexts heighten anxiety among intellectually stigmatized students |
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