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Putting the "affirm" into affirmative action: preferential selection and academic performance.

R P Brown1, T Charnsangavej, K A Keough

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA. rpbrown@ou.edu

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
|November 18, 2000
PubMed
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Believing you were chosen for a task due to gender bias negatively impacts performance. Suspicion of affirmative action in college admissions is linked to lower GPAs, especially for minority students.

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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Preferential selection can influence individual performance and academic outcomes.
  • Stereotype threat and perceived fairness are critical factors in academic settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of perceived preferential selection on academic performance.
  • To examine the relationship between suspicion of affirmative action and college students' GPA.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Experimental manipulation of selection reasons (gender, gender & ability, random) for a problem-solving task.
  • Study 2: Correlational analysis of students' suspicion of race-based preferences and their GPA, including mediation analysis.

Main Results:

  • Women believing they were selected for leadership due to gender performed worse than those selected randomly or for gender and ability.

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  • Suspicion of race-based college admissions negatively correlated with GPA.
  • Suspicion of affirmative action partially explained the GPA difference between minority and non-minority students.

    • Conclusions:

    • Perceived gender-based selection can undermine performance, suggesting a form of stereotype threat.
    • Suspicion of preferential treatment in college admissions may negatively affect academic achievement, particularly for students from historically underrepresented groups.