This study gives us some evidence that not always stereotypes affect people negatively. In study 1, to support their theory researchers predicted that the females’ performance would decrease when their gender was made more noticeable and improve relatively when their Asian identity was made salient compared to a control group where none of Asian-American women’s identity was made noticeable. Participants were randomly assigned to three different groups (female-identity-salient, Asian-identity-salient and no-identity-salient). They completed different questionnaires without direct questions to make salient the identity of gender or ethnic, afterwards they completed a quantitative test and final questionnaire about their experience in this research.
