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And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
W. W. Norton & Company
April 2010
On Sale: April 12, 2010
242 pages
ISBN: 039306249X
EAN: 9780393062496
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Acclaimed social psychologist Claude Steele offers an
insider’s look at his groundbreaking findings on stereotypes
and identity. Through dramatic personal stories, Claude
Steele shares the experiments and studies that show, again
and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes—merely
reminding a group of female math majors about to take a math
test, for example, that women are considered naturally
inferior to men at math—impairs their performance in the
area affected by the stereotype. Steele’s conclusions shed
new light on a host of American social phenomena, from the
racial and gender gaps in standardized test scores to the
belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men. Steele
explicates the dilemmas that arise in every American’s life
around issues of identity, from the white student whose
grades drop steadily in his African American Studies class
to the female engineering students deciding whether or not
to attend predominantly male professional conferences.
Whistling Vivaldi offers insight into how we form our senses
of identity and ultimately lays out a plan for mitigating
the negative effects of “stereotype threat” and reshaping
American identities.
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