The Negative Consequences of Threat
通过功能性磁共振成像，研究发现提醒女性性别刻板印象会抑制其数学学习相关脑区活动，转而激活社会情绪处理脑区，导致数学表现下降。
This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural structures associated with women's underperformance on math tasks. Although women in a control condition recruited neural networks that are associated with mathematical learning (i.e., angular gyrus, left parietal and prefrontal cortex), women who were reminded of gender stereotypes about math ability did not recruit these regions, and instead revealed heightened activation in a neural region associated with social and emotional processing (ventral anterior cingulate cortex).