Kimberly A. Bourne

Inducing and Mitigating Stereotype Threat Through Gendered Virtual Body-Swap Illusions

A psychological phenomenon termed "stereotype threat" has been shown to contribute to women's underperformance and underrepresentation in math and science fields. Within the virtual reality literature, a recent study utilized gendered body-swap illusions (i.e., women in male virtual bodies) to mitigate the effects of…