New research from social psychologists at Indiana University
Bloomington suggests that feeling powerful might protect against the
debilitating effects of negative stereotypes.
"If you can make women feel powerful, then maybe you
can protect them from the consequences of stereotype threat," IU social
psychologist Katie Van Loo said.
In new work, Van Loo and Robert Rydell, social psychologists
in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the IU College of Arts
and Sciences, brought the study of these two social forces -- power and
stereotypes -- together to determine whether one could circumvent the
debilitating impact of the other.