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Gender Stereotype Susceptibility
Gender affects performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, and this impact may stem from socio-cultural factors such as gender stereotyping. Here we systematically manipulated gender stereotype messages on a social cognition task on which no initial gender gap has been documented. The outcome revea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25517903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114802 |
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author | Pavlova, Marina A. Weber, Susanna Simoes, Elisabeth Sokolov, Alexander N. |
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description | Gender affects performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, and this impact may stem from socio-cultural factors such as gender stereotyping. Here we systematically manipulated gender stereotype messages on a social cognition task on which no initial gender gap has been documented. The outcome reveals: (i) Stereotyping affects both females and males, with a more pronounced impact on females. Yet an explicit negative message for males elicits a striking paradoxical deterioration in performance of females. (ii) Irrespective of gender and directness of message, valence of stereotype message affects performance: negative messages have stronger influence than positive ones. (iii) Directness of stereotype message differentially impacts performance of females and males: females tend to be stronger affected by implicit than explicit negative messages, whereas in males this relationship is opposite. The data are discussed in the light of neural networks underlying gender stereotyping. The findings provide novel insights into the sources of gender related fluctuations in cognition and behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-42693882014-12-26 Gender Stereotype Susceptibility Pavlova, Marina A. Weber, Susanna Simoes, Elisabeth Sokolov, Alexander N. PLoS One Research Article Gender affects performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, and this impact may stem from socio-cultural factors such as gender stereotyping. Here we systematically manipulated gender stereotype messages on a social cognition task on which no initial gender gap has been documented. The outcome reveals: (i) Stereotyping affects both females and males, with a more pronounced impact on females. Yet an explicit negative message for males elicits a striking paradoxical deterioration in performance of females. (ii) Irrespective of gender and directness of message, valence of stereotype message affects performance: negative messages have stronger influence than positive ones. (iii) Directness of stereotype message differentially impacts performance of females and males: females tend to be stronger affected by implicit than explicit negative messages, whereas in males this relationship is opposite. The data are discussed in the light of neural networks underlying gender stereotyping. The findings provide novel insights into the sources of gender related fluctuations in cognition and behavior. Public Library of Science 2014-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4269388/ /pubmed/25517903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114802 Text en © 2014 Pavlova et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pavlova, Marina A. Weber, Susanna Simoes, Elisabeth Sokolov, Alexander N. Gender Stereotype Susceptibility |
title | Gender Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_full | Gender Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_fullStr | Gender Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_short | Gender Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_sort | gender stereotype susceptibility |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25517903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114802 |
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