Stereotype threat theory states that female and minority test-takers underperform on cognitive tests because they experience pressure by negative stereotypes about their group's performance. The theory hypothesizes that this effect is larger for test-takers who strongly identify with an academic domain, and for whom the test is the most difficult. These moderators can create treatment-by-covariate interactions when premeasured performance (e.g., the SAT) serves as covariate, as is common practice in stereotype threat experiments. In this preregistered Bayesian meta-analysis, we used the raw data from 31 stereotype threat studies involving 3357 negatively stereotyped participants to investigate whether stereotype threat effects are moderated by premeasured performance. Results yield evidence for no moderation. Correlations between premeasured performance and test scores are similar across conditions, indicating uniformity of stereotype threat with respect to premeasured performance. This suggests that domain identification or test difficulty as both operationalized by premeasured performance fail to moderate stereotype threat effects, and that previous findings on the effect of these moderators may be false positives.

刻板印象威胁理论指出，女性和少数族裔应试者在认知测试中表现不佳，因为她们受到对其群体表现的负面刻板印象的压力。该理论假设，对于强烈认同某个学术领域且考试难度最大的考生来说，这种影响更大。当预先测量的性能（例如，SAT）作为协变量时，这些主持人可以创建协变量的交互作用，这是刻板印象威胁实验中的常见做法。在这项预先注册的贝叶斯元分析中，我们使用了来自 31 项刻板印象威胁研究的原始数据，涉及 3357 名消极刻板印象的参与者，以调查刻板印象威胁效应是否受到预先测量的绩效的影响。结果产生了没有节制的证据。在不同条件下，预测性能和测试分数之间的相关性相似，表明刻板印象威胁与预测性能的一致性。这表明，通过预先测量的性能来操作的域识别或测试难度都无法缓和刻板印象威胁的影响，并且先前关于这些调节者影响的发现可能是误报。