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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Status Characteristics Theory"”.
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Gender Bias in Engineering: Does More Contact with Female Engineers Reduce Bias?
Status Characteristics Theory and Contact Theory are tested to measure gender bias in engineering students, and to determine if contact with female engineers helps reduce gender bias. To assess this, two versions of a resume, one with a female's name and one with a male's name, were given to senior …
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The salience of gender in the assessment of job candidates
Status Characteristics theory predicts that gender will become salient and activate different performance expectations for men and women in situations where either (1) performers are in a mixed-sex group or (2) gender is explicitly linked to the task at hand, or (3) both. This prediction has been …
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White Collar Crime and Morality: How Occupation Shapes Perception
… perceptions of white-collar criminals. Using Status Characteristics Theory, a structural social psychological theory that links an individual's status characteristics to evaluations of their morality, trustworthiness and competency, vignette experiments are constructed that allow for offender …
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Legislating Effective Equality: Implicit Biases and Antidiscrimination Policies
… from structural social psychology and prospect theory to offer a theoretical explanation as to the origins of implicit biases as well as the best possible legal solutions to limit their impacts. Specifically, it is hypothesized that the frame or wording of antidiscrimination laws affects how …
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Who Should Lead? Effective Influence as a Product of Group Context and Group Purpose
… most influential, who leads. Expectation states theory (EST) and the social identity theory of leadership (SITL) both make predictions about which group member will have the most influence. EST argues that group members follow whomever they believe will lead the group to success. SITL states that …
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"Do You Want Excitement? Don't Join the Army, Be a Nurse!": Identity Work and Advantage among Men in Training for the Female Professions
This study examines the identity work strategies that men students in nursing, elementary education, and social work programs employ in order to manage and assert their masculinity in the face of negative gender assessment, as well as the identity work involved in verifying their professional …