Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A Social-Psychological Intervention

Geoffrey L. Cohen, Julio Garcia, Nancy Apfel, Allison Master

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 3 replications of this study. Recorded outcomes: 3 failed.

New evidence on self-affirmation effects and theorized sources of heterogeneity from large-scale replications, Hanselman et al. (2017). Outcome recorded: failed. We found no evidence of effects in this replication study and estimates were precise enough to reject benefits larger than an effect size of 0.10. View paper
Affirmative Intervention to Reduce Stereotype Threat Bias: Experimental Evidence from a Community College, Baker et al. (2019). Outcome recorded: failed. Overall, we find little evidence of a positive effect of this one-time affirmation of social identity. View paper
Context Moderates Affirmation Effects on the Ethnic Achievement Gap, Protzko & Aronson (2016). Outcome recorded: failed. we found no effect of the affirmation on academic performance. View paper