In the Hoyt & Murphy reading it discussed in depth what stereotype threat is and the effects that stereotype threat has on people. Stereotype Threat is a situation in which they feel at risk of falling into stereotypes about their in-group. The example that was discussed in depth in this reading was that of which black men were distributed a test by a while male and they were told that blacks typically do worse on these types of assessments as opposed to whites. When they told them this they performed much worse. Whereas when they were not told this information they performed much better on the test because they did not want to fall into the trap. Another example of this. Another example of this was shown at a STEM event in which the event discussed how masculine traits would foster more success in this field/how it was a male-dominated field.  What they found is that many women dropped out of the program/felt discouraged to attend the event or enter into a STEM field. This also plays into this idea of implicit biases in which you have unconscious feelings towards a specific gender, race, or ethnicity. In positions of leadership, there is an implicit bias against women and implicit bias for men because leadership roles are associated with masculine traits that most men possess.