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Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes
Age discrimination at work can potentially affect every worker. Indeed, like ‘old’ workers, young ones hired in their first job elicit the idea that they have quite interesting social abilities but lack of competence, which constitutes a case of paternalistic stereotypes (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, &...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30479788 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/pb.351 |
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author | Silvestre, Aude Huart, Johanne Dardenne, Benoit |
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description | Age discrimination at work can potentially affect every worker. Indeed, like ‘old’ workers, young ones hired in their first job elicit the idea that they have quite interesting social abilities but lack of competence, which constitutes a case of paternalistic stereotypes (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002). Generally, the negative (incompetence) facet of such stereotypes is not blatantly expressed, but is subtly conveyed behind an apparently positive discourse. Consequently, it is considered as being generally under-detected, while harmful. In this paper, we examine whether paternalistic stereotyping’s under-detection is real or if it is due to the use of inadequate measures. Based on a study showing that targets feel that something is wrong (Dardenne, Dumont, & Bollier 2007), we rely on affective measures to investigate whether the detection of the subtly conveyed negative facet of paternalistic stereotypes calls for subtle, implicit measures. In Study 1, explicit self-reports of targets’ affective states after a meeting with a paternalistic boss revealed mainly positive affect. In Study 2, an implicit emotional measure however revealed the presence of a negative affective state. The last Study, using a more ecological affective measure, demonstrates that paternalistic stereotypes trigger an ambivalent affective reaction. Altogether, the three studies suggest that the negative facet of paternalistic stereotypes is not as under-detected as we thought. |
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spelling | pubmed-61945302018-11-26 Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes Silvestre, Aude Huart, Johanne Dardenne, Benoit Psychol Belg Research Article Age discrimination at work can potentially affect every worker. Indeed, like ‘old’ workers, young ones hired in their first job elicit the idea that they have quite interesting social abilities but lack of competence, which constitutes a case of paternalistic stereotypes (Fiske, Cuddy, Glick, & Xu, 2002). Generally, the negative (incompetence) facet of such stereotypes is not blatantly expressed, but is subtly conveyed behind an apparently positive discourse. Consequently, it is considered as being generally under-detected, while harmful. In this paper, we examine whether paternalistic stereotyping’s under-detection is real or if it is due to the use of inadequate measures. Based on a study showing that targets feel that something is wrong (Dardenne, Dumont, & Bollier 2007), we rely on affective measures to investigate whether the detection of the subtly conveyed negative facet of paternalistic stereotypes calls for subtle, implicit measures. In Study 1, explicit self-reports of targets’ affective states after a meeting with a paternalistic boss revealed mainly positive affect. In Study 2, an implicit emotional measure however revealed the presence of a negative affective state. The last Study, using a more ecological affective measure, demonstrates that paternalistic stereotypes trigger an ambivalent affective reaction. Altogether, the three studies suggest that the negative facet of paternalistic stereotypes is not as under-detected as we thought. Ubiquity Press 2017-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6194530/ /pubmed/30479788 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/pb.351 Text en Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Silvestre, Aude Huart, Johanne Dardenne, Benoit Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes |
title | Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes |
title_full | Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes |
title_fullStr | Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes |
title_full_unstemmed | Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes |
title_short | Implicit Belittlements Call for Implicit Measures: Emotional Reactions to Youth Paternalistic Stereotypes |
title_sort | implicit belittlements call for implicit measures: emotional reactions to youth paternalistic stereotypes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6194530/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30479788 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/pb.351 |
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