| Joshua Aronson | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Social psychology |
| Workplaces: | New York University |
| Education: | University of California, Santa Cruz, Princeton University |
| Thesis Title: | From Dissonance to Dis-identification: The Impact of Consistency on Affirmation Responses to Self-esteem Threats |
| Thesis Url: | https://books.google.com/books/about/From_Dissonance_to_Dis_identification.html?id=adkCtwAACAAJ |
| Thesis Year: | 1992 |
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| Known For: | Work on stereotype threat and the achievement gap |
| Awards: | 2016 Society of Experimental Social Psychology's Scientific Impact Award (with Claude Steele) |
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Joshua Michael Aronson is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.[1] He is known for his pioneering work on stereotype threat, which he conducted in the 1990s along with Claude Steele and Steven Spencer.[2] [3] [4] This work has shown that female, minority, and low-income children are stereotyped as performing worse on standardized tests, and that when they are taught to overcome these stereotypes, their standardized test scores improve.[5] He also co-authored a study in 2009 in which he reported no evidence that African Americans' test scores had improved as a result of the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States the previous year.[6] [7]