Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393062496)

Here, social psychologist Claude M. Steele offers an insider's look at his findings on stereotypes and identity. Through dramatic personal stories, he shares the experiments and studies that show, again and again, that exposing subjects to stereotypes impairs their performance in the area affected by the stereotype.