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The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility
We tested whether stereotypical situations would affect low-status group members' performance more strongly than high-status group members'. Experiment 1 and 2 tested this hypothesis using gender as a proxy of chronic social status and a gender-neutral task that has been randomly presented...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26645829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144582 |
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author | Pillaud, Vincent Rigaud, David Clémence, Alain |
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description | We tested whether stereotypical situations would affect low-status group members' performance more strongly than high-status group members'. Experiment 1 and 2 tested this hypothesis using gender as a proxy of chronic social status and a gender-neutral task that has been randomly presented to favor boys (men superiority condition), favor girls (women superiority condition), or show no gender preference (control condition). Both experiments found that women’s (Experiment 1) and girls’ performance (Experiment 2) suffered more from the evoked stereotypes than did men's and boys’ ones. This result was replicated in Experiment 3, indicating that short men (low-status group) were more affected compared to tall men (high-status group). Additionally, men were more affected compared to women when they perceived height as a threat. Hence, individuals are more or less vulnerable to identity threats as a function of the chronic social status at play; enjoying a high status provides protection and endorsing a low one weakens individual performance in stereotypical situations. |
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spelling | pubmed-46729232015-12-16 The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility Pillaud, Vincent Rigaud, David Clémence, Alain PLoS One Research Article We tested whether stereotypical situations would affect low-status group members' performance more strongly than high-status group members'. Experiment 1 and 2 tested this hypothesis using gender as a proxy of chronic social status and a gender-neutral task that has been randomly presented to favor boys (men superiority condition), favor girls (women superiority condition), or show no gender preference (control condition). Both experiments found that women’s (Experiment 1) and girls’ performance (Experiment 2) suffered more from the evoked stereotypes than did men's and boys’ ones. This result was replicated in Experiment 3, indicating that short men (low-status group) were more affected compared to tall men (high-status group). Additionally, men were more affected compared to women when they perceived height as a threat. Hence, individuals are more or less vulnerable to identity threats as a function of the chronic social status at play; enjoying a high status provides protection and endorsing a low one weakens individual performance in stereotypical situations. Public Library of Science 2015-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4672923/ /pubmed/26645829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144582 Text en © 2015 Pillaud 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 Pillaud, Vincent Rigaud, David Clémence, Alain The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility |
title | The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_full | The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_fullStr | The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_short | The Influence of Chronic and Situational Social Status on Stereotype Susceptibility |
title_sort | influence of chronic and situational social status on stereotype susceptibility |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4672923/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26645829 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144582 |
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