t term, the researchers repeated the test and then gave the women a standard memory test involving verbal information.

Researchers found that the women did less well on that test if they were exposed to the mathematics stereotyping.

"This may mean that if a girl takes a verbal portion of a standardized test after taking the mathematics portion, she may not do as well on the verbal portion as she might do if she had not been recently struggling with math-related worries and anxiety," Beilock said.

"Likewise, our work suggests that if a girl has a mathematics class first thing in the morning and experiences math-related worries in this class, these worries may carry implications for her performance in the class she attends next," she said.

"We demonstrated that worries about confirming a negative group stereotype may not only impact performance in the stereotyped domain, but that this impact can spill over onto subsequent, unrelated tasks that depend on the same processing resource the stereotype-related worries consume," Beilock wrote.

The findings of the study were published in May issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.


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