Social Consensus Feedback as a Strategy to Overcome Spontaneous Gender Stereotypes

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11274037
AutoresEimear Finnegan (0000-0002-4587-8074, University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia), Alan Garnham (0000-0002-0058-403X, University of Sussex), Jane Oakhill (0000-0001-8810-3714, University of Sussex)
Año2015
Volumen52
Número5-6
Páginas434-462
Fecha de publicación2015-07-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0163853x.2015.1026680
OpenAlexW1975241039
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas43

Across two experiments the present research examined the use of social consensus feedback as a strategy for overcoming spontaneous gender stereotyping when certain social role nouns and professional terms are read. Participants were presented with word pairs comprising a role noun (e.g., surgeon) and a kinship term (e.g., mother) and asked to decide whether both terms could refer to the same person. In the absence of training, participants responded more slowly and less accurately to stereotype incongruent pairings (e.g., surgeon/mother) than stereotype congruent pairings (e.g., surgeon/father). When participants were provided with (fictitious) social consensus feedback, constructed to suggest that past participants did not succumb to stereotypes, performance to incongruent pairings improved significantly (Experiment 1). The mechanism(s) through which the social feedback operated were then investigated (Experiment 2), with results suggesting that success was due to social compliance processes. Implications of findings for the field of discourse processing are discussed

Cognitive psychology · Compliance (psychology · Kinship · Linguistics · Mechanism (biology · Noun · Stereotype (UML · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies in Language · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology