Are Athletes The Biggest Victims Of Stereotype Threat On College Campuses?

Blanket stereotypes are bad but they often come into existence for a reason; the problem becomes when everyone is labeled with the same brush. There is a common belief that some schools, high school and college, are giving athletes an easier time because they have physical skills but not academic ones, for example, and so all athletes become considered "dumb jocks". Are college athletes victims of stereotype threat the way sociologists contend women and minorities in science classes are? read more

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