Although Dr. Johnson believes that women and men can perform equally well on a math test, Dr. Johnson is exploring whether women perform worse on a math test when they are asked to indicate their gender prior to taking the text. Dr. Johnson is exploring the concept of "_____."

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The concept that Dr. Johnson is exploring is called "stereotype threat," which is the phenomenon where people perform worse on a task when they are reminded of a negative stereotype about their social group. In this case, Dr. Johnson is testing whether reminding women of the negative stereotype that women are bad at math can cause them to perform worse on a math test.