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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"gender stereotype"”.
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The Roles of Exercise Habits, Gender Stereotype of Exercise, and Self-Esteem in Sexual Victimization
… report victimization than non-varsity athletes. Gender stereotype of exercise was not able to predict victimization scores over and above frequency of exercise, intensity of exercise, duration of exercise, and self-esteem, among non-varsity athletes. The variable of gender stereotype of exercise …
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Children's Moral Reasoning about Attribution of Intentions: The Influence of Gender Stereotypes and Theory of Mind
The present study investigated how holding gender stereotypes and having a false belief theory of mind impacts children's understanding of intentionality when evaluating morally relevant stories. Children 3 - 4, 5 - 6, and 7 - 8-years-of-age (N = 127) were interviewed about the intentions of a …
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Uncovering the Unrealistic Domestic Goddess: A Modified Grounded Theory Approach to Gender Stereotypes in Parenting Blogs
… for instances of conforming to or deviating from gender stereotypes. A plethora of research recognizes the negative effects of perpetuating stereotypes on such aspects of life and culture as self-concepts, concepts of others, opportunities, obstacles, and occupations. Social cognitive theory …
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The Role of Stereotype Threat in Mental Rotation
… to females. This paper examined the role of stereotype threat in a mental rotation task. Particularly, the research study focused on gender stereotype threat in female college students. The study was completed in a two part design with students completing two mental rotation task in a group …
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Afraid To Be A Nerd: Effects of Nerd Stereotypes on Women’s Math Performance
… on women’s math performance with the effects of gender stereotype threat. Gender identity, nerd identity, and fear of social exclusion were examined as possible mediating and moderating variables. Results did not support that nerd stigma affected math performance in either men or women, thus …
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Developing, Refining, and Validating a Survey to Measure Stereotypes and Biases that Women Face in Industry
… worked in a male dominated industry has faced a gender stereotype or bias of some type. Some of these women have even developed coping mechanisms to counteract these biases and make day-to-day interactions at work tolerable. Gathering information to reveal these stereotypes and biases can pose a …
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"What Do Lots of Kids Like?" How the Understanding of Normative Preferences Affects Desire-based Reasoning in Preschool Children
… of 82 preschool children regarding food and gendered objects, using a sorting task. We examined the accuracy of their beliefs by comparing them with the actual preferences of our sample. We found that children demonstrated accurate beliefs about what lots of kids their age like and dislike, …
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The Determinants of Occupational Gendertyping: Two Experimental Studies of a Model
… rather than the causes, of occupational gendertyping. This paper reviews and integrates the available literature in a model of the determinants of occupational gendertypes, and presents two studies designed to test portions of the model. The first experiment examined the effects of …
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Social Context and Decisions : Essays in experimental economics
… to implement regulatory policies on corruption, gender gap and injustice. Behavioral and Experimental Economics provides a clean tool to keep the internal validity necessary to disentangle complex behavioral aspects that cannot be easily observed in the field, such as those related to the …
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The Impact of Playing as a Non-Stereotypical Woman in a Role-Playing Video Game on Players’ Real World Gender Role Attitudes
… warrior woman, and a lizard body that is hard to gender stereotype using human gender role attitudes. Participants were given a pretest and posttest measure that checked their gender role attitudes and were allowed to play the game with no restrictions on the role-play choices they make within the …
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Threatening the Heart and Mind of Gender Stereotypes: Can Imagined Contact Influence the Physiology of Stereotype Threat?
Research shows that when a gender stereotype is made salient and the target of the stereotype is asked to perform in the stereotyped domain, targets of the stereotype often perform at a lower level compared to situations when the stereotype was not made salient (Spencer, Steele, & Quinn, 1999). …
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Evaluation of a Novel Medical Perspective-Taking Intervention
… lower treatment quality. The magnitude of gender treatment disparities correlates with the strength of physicians’ gender stereotype endorsement (Lloyd et al., 2020), stressing the importance of finding bias-reduction interventions that are practical to implement within clinical settings. …
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A comparative study of challenges faced by women in leadership: a case of Foskor and the Department of Labour in Mhlathuze Municipality
… to support the study from the following areas: gender equity in leadership positions, gender and leadership in South Africa, gender inequality in management: globally and in South Africa, affirmative action and discrimination within organization, gender differences in leadership, gender …
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Math Ability and Gendered Self-Perceptions
Gender stereotypes continue to be prevalent in American society and have the potential to influence the self-perceptions of both males and females. One stereotype that has been particularly persistent is the belief that mathematics is a masculine subject and that males are inherently better at math …
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Math Ability and Gendered Self-Perceptions
Gender stereotypes continue to be prevalent in American society and have the potential to influence the self-perceptions of both males and females. One stereotype that has been particularly persistent is the belief that mathematics is a masculine subject and that males are inherently better at math …
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Interviewer biases: can first impressions be changed by displaying stereotypical or non-stereotypical behaviour?
… process may contribute to maintaining racial and gender gaps if decision-making is discriminatory. The purpose of the research was to determine whether interviewers base decisions on stereotypical information, and whether interviewer first impressions can be influenced and changed when …
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What is beautiful is sex-typed: a developmental examination
Stereotypes about attractiveness and gender seem to implicate each other in various ways. Previous research has found that adults rate highly attractive targets as being more sex-typed than less attractive targets. This phenomenon has been identified as the “beauty-is-sex-typed” stereotype and has …
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Press ‘1’ to speak to a machine: An examination of the psychological factors influencing preference for interaction with artificially intelligent actors
… 2, I investigate how individuals apply social stereotypes to digital voiced assistants (DVAs) and how this facilitates understanding of novel personified devices. Through experimentally pairing participants with fake artificially intelligent voiced agents, I demonstrate that individuals …
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Face Management and the Role of Interpersonal Politeness Variables in Euphemism Production and Comprehension
… structure of the politeness super-strategies. Gender differences in politeness emerged in the free-response data; utterances produced by female speakers were judged to be more polite. There were no gender stereotype effects in these politeness ratings. Finally, the politeness of speakers' …
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Gendered expectations for gendered companies: the effect of the grammatical gender of company names on the stock price momentum of Latin American and Spanish stocks
… to examine the hypothesis that grammatical gender assignments of a company’s name passes gender stereotypes onto the company itself, and consequently changes investors’ expectation of the stock performance. We gathered historical stock price data from Spanish speaking countries, and compared …
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