The Content and Function of Gender Self-stereotypes: An Exploratory Investigation
Sex Roles, 2006We drew on gender identity theory (Spence, 1993) and social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986) to examine the structure and content of college students’ gender self-stereotypes and how their selective self-stereotyping relate to academic self-schema, personal self-esteem, and collective self-esteem.
Debra L. Oswald, Kara Lindstedt
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Gender Self-Stereotyping Is Context Dependent for Men But Not for Women
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2012Two experiments tested whether activation of associations between the self and specific aspects of the gender stereotype is context dependent. Self-stereotype associations were assessed with a sequential priming paradigm, using the words “I” versus “others” as primes, and gender-stereotypic trait words as targets in a lexical decision task.
Catharina Casper, Klaus Rothermund
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Self‐stereotyping and self‐enhancement in gender groups
European Journal of Social Psychology, 1991AbstractThis study investigated the effects of sex membership and its salience on individuals' self‐stereotyping and the motivation to define oneself positively (self‐enhancement). Bem's (1981) gender‐schema and Markus's (1977) self‐schema theories were interpreted within the framework of inter group relations, which emphasized their respective bipolar
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The role of gender self-stereotyping in adolescents' psychological functioning
2021Gender stereotypes set expectations in a society on what men and women could and should be like, what they could and should do and how successful they will be in a given role. These expectations are based on an assumed fit of women's communion in human-centered fields and supportive roles and men's agency in impersonal and tech-intensive fields and ...
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Intergroup behaviour, self‐stereotyping and the salience of social categories
British Journal of Social Psychology, 1987Recent research (Hogg & Turner, 1985 a, b ) favours a social identity rather than group cohesiveness analysis of group behaviour and psychological group formation.
Michael A. Hogg, John C. Turner
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The Positive (and Negative) Consequences of Endorsing Negative Self-stereotypes
Self and Identity, 2009The impact of negative stereotypes can be harmful and, as a result, stereotype targets are often motivated to deny their accuracy. However, at times, targets of even the most unflattering stereotypes embrace them as valid. We identify the underlying reasons why people might embrace negative self-stereotypes and also examine the various outcomes that ...
Melissa Burkley, Hart Blanton
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[Stereotype, self-stereotype and metaperception of men and women].
Acta psiquiatrica y psicologica de America latina, 1993Male and female self-stereotype, and metaperception were studied in a 613-University student sample (291 men, 322 women). Seventy-nine bipolar items from the Factorial Scales of Self-concept were used as a measure. Factor analyses of items were independently calculated for their application to both men and women. The principal findings were as follows:
A, Tamayo, M P, Tamayo
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Cultural Stereotypes and the Self: A Closer Examination of Implicit Self-Stereotyping
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2009Recent research and theory on implicit self-stereotyping suggests that individuals nonconsciously incorporate stereotypes about their social groups into the self-concept; however, evidence as to whether this holds true for negative stereotypes remains limited.
Janetta Lun +2 more
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Stereotyping, Affiliation, and Self-Stereotyping of Underrepresented Groups in the Sales Force
Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, 2013This study adds theoretical and managerial insights to the sales literature regarding the unfortunate but prevalent issue of stereotyping in sales by supervisors toward underrepresented groups of sales employees. Specifically, we examine (1) the self-evaluative, social, and emotional consequences of being stereotyped by a supervisor, and (2) the ...
Linyun W. Yang +3 more
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Social comparison, self-stereotyping, and gender differences in self-construals.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2006Four studies examined gender differences in self-construals and the role of social comparison in generating these differences. Consistent with previous research, Study 1 (N=461) showed that women define themselves as higher in relational interdependence than men, and men define themselves as higher in independence/agency than women.
Guimond, Serge +4 more
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