Women self-stereotype with feminine stereotypical traits under stereotype threat

Summary, in English

Is self-stereotyping part of the stereotype threat process? The self-concepts of 122 male and female business students were assessed by self-report and the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGhee & Schwartz, 1998). The participants were either told that their salary negotiating ability would be assessed (stereotype threat) or not. There were no sex-differences in the non-diagnostic condition but in the stereotype threat condition, the women explicitly self-stereotyped with feminine stereotypical traits. There was also a trend for the women under stereotype threat to implicitly self-stereotype. As the self-concept is considered an important regulator of behavior, the result is discussed in terms of its potential to explain stereotype threat effects.

• Author: Una Tellhed; Fredrik Björklund
• Department/s: Department of Psychology
• Publishing year: 2008
• Language: English
• Pages: 219-231
• Publication/Series: Current Research in Social Psychology
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 18
• Links: http://www.uiowa.edu/crisp/files/crisp/files/13.18.pdf
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: University of Iowa, Department of Sociology
• Topic: Psychology
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1088-7423