Mélisse Lafrance
Biographic Data
| ID | 324133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mélisse Lafrance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mélisse |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafrance |
| SIGNATURE | LAFRANCE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3426-646X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 275 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 42 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
US cisgender women's psychological responses to physical femininity threats
Gendered Anti-Bisexual Bias
Bisexual people may appear to have more potential romantic partners than people only attracted to one gender (e.g., heterosexual, gay, lesbian people). However, bisexual people's dating choices are limited by non-bisexual people's reluctance to date bisexual people. Studies have indicated that some heterosexual, gay, and lesbian people are reluctant to date bisexual people, particularly bisexual men. We extend current understandings of gendered a…
Implicit Reactions to Women in High Power Body Postures
Implicit androcentrism
Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism
Androcentrism refers to the propensity to center society around men and men’s needs, priorities, and values and to relegate women to the periphery. Androcentrism also positions men as the gender-neutral standard while marking women as gender-specific. Examples of androcentrism include the use of male terms (e.g., he), images, and research participants to represent everyone. Androcentrism has been shown to have serious consequences. For example, w…
About face
Nancy M. Henley (1934–2016)
Beyond generalized sexual prejudice
Anonymously male
When asked to pick a typical human, people are more likely to pick a man than a woman, a phenomenon reflecting androcentrism. Social media websites provide a relevant context in which to study androcentrism since many websites aim to provide users with an ostensibly gender-neutral icon if users do not upload one of their own images. In our first study, 50 male and female online participants (Mage = 35.70) rated whether actual avatar icons from hi…
Stereotypes of bisexual people
Perceptions of instability and choice across sexual orientation groups
Some have described gay and lesbian people as making a “lifestyle choice” while others assert that bisexuality is not a stable or valid identity. This paper examines the possibility that perceived instability and perceived choice, and their associations with prejudice, differ depending on both the sexual orientation of the participant and the target group. Participants varying in sexual orientation were randomly assigned to evaluate heterosexual,…
Who Counts as Human? Antecedents to Androcentric Behavior
Lay Conceptions of Sexual Minority Groups
Internalizing the closet
The present studies are the first in which social psychological methods were used to test the popular claim that the experience of concealing a stigmatized social identity leads to a "divided self." For people with concealable stigmas, concealment in public settings makes the public-private dimension of self-expression particularly salient, leading them to organize self-relevant information along this dimension. The result is a strengthened cogni…
Others as Objects
The Effects of Subtle Sexual Harassment on Women’s Performance in a Job Interview
The Correlates and Consequences of Newspaper Reports of Research on Sex Differences
Correlates and consequences of newspaper accounts of research on sex differences were examined. In Study 1, articles from high-circulation newspapers were coded for the degree to which biological factors were used to explain sex differences. Results showed that political conservatism and traditional attitudes toward gender roles coded from other newspaper sections predicted greater use of biological explanations than did political liberalism and …
Émancipation ou colonisation
À partir des Études culturelles féministes et postmodernistes, nous procédons à l’analyse de messages publicitaires réalisés par la compagnie Nike. Nous avançons que la « colonisation » du corps féminin faite par cette compagnie a nourri le sentiment postféministe dans l’imaginaire nord-américain. Nous illustrons la façon dont Nike a envahi l’univers sémiotique et social tout en misant sur des stratégies mondialistes qui permettent l’exploitation…
What was She Thinking
Body Objectification and “Fat Talk”
II. Smile Boycotts and Other Body Politics
II. Smile Boycotts and Other Body Politics
Real Versus Imagined Gender Harassment
Sexual harassment studies that use hypothetical situations and retrospective surveys may overestimate the degree to which victims actually confront their harassers. The result is that immediate emotional reactions are little understood and victims are often taken to task for nonconfrontational behavior. To address this neglect, we describe our experimental investigation of immediate reactions to sexually harassing questions encountered during a r…
Schooling Desire
A Social Constructionist Diet
Body Objectification and “Fat Talk”
Real Versus Imagined Gender Harassment
Sexual harassment studies that use hypothetical situations and retrospective surveys may overestimate the degree to which victims actually confront their harassers. The result is that immediate emotional reactions are little understood and victims are often taken to task for nonconfrontational behavior. To address this neglect, we describe our experimental investigation of immediate reactions to sexually harassing questions encountered during a r…
Nonverbal Synchrony and Rapport
Racial differences in gaze behavior during conversations
Beyond generalized sexual prejudice
Who Counts as Human? Antecedents to Androcentric Behavior
Internalizing the closet
The present studies are the first in which social psychological methods were used to test the popular claim that the experience of concealing a stigmatized social identity leads to a "divided self." For people with concealable stigmas, concealment in public settings makes the public-private dimension of self-expression particularly salient, leading them to organize self-relevant information along this dimension. The result is a strengthened cogni…
The Effects of Subtle Sexual Harassment on Women’s Performance in a Job Interview
Implicit androcentrism
The nonverbal display of psychological androgyny
Perceptions of instability and choice across sexual orientation groups
Some have described gay and lesbian people as making a “lifestyle choice” while others assert that bisexuality is not a stable or valid identity. This paper examines the possibility that perceived instability and perceived choice, and their associations with prejudice, differ depending on both the sexual orientation of the participant and the target group. Participants varying in sexual orientation were randomly assigned to evaluate heterosexual,…
Gender and Interruptions
Does gender affect reactions to violations of expected conversational behavior? This study examined ratings of interactants involved in interruptive exchanges. Audio recordings of two-person interactions that varied in gender composition but were identical in script features were rated by judges on several scales, including the degree to which participants were seen to be argumentative, rude, and assertive. Results showed that interrupter sex did…
Cultural aspects of nonverbal communication
Interpersonal Verbs, Gender, and Implicit Causality
In the present report we describe a series of studies investigating whether women and men are regarded as equivalently able to cause outcomes in social interaction. Two experiments plus a follow-up study varied sex of actors, sex of recipients, and verb type and examined who is perceived to be more causal in brief verbal descriptions of interpersonal events. Results show that the gender of participants in a social interaction significantly affect…
Gendered Anti-Bisexual Bias
Bisexual people may appear to have more potential romantic partners than people only attracted to one gender (e.g., heterosexual, gay, lesbian people). However, bisexual people's dating choices are limited by non-bisexual people's reluctance to date bisexual people. Studies have indicated that some heterosexual, gay, and lesbian people are reluctant to date bisexual people, particularly bisexual men. We extend current understandings of gendered a…
About face
Lay Conceptions of Sexual Minority Groups
School for Scandal
Some would argue that sex discrimination in educational settings is on the wane. This paper, drawing especially from research undertaken in North American settings will contend however that the announcement of its demise is premature. Research shows that gender inequality in the classroom continues and is manifest in and maintained by a variety of overlearned, non‐conscious, verbal and non‐verbal messages initiated in interactions between teacher…
Stereotypes of bisexual people
Others as Objects
II. Smile Boycotts and Other Body Politics
The school of hard knocks
1985). The school of hard knocks: Nonverbal sexism in the classroom. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 24, Classroom Communication/Verbal and Nonverbal, pp. 40-44
Racial differences in gaze behavior during conversations
Cultural aspects of nonverbal communication
Nonverbal Synchrony and Rapport
The nonverbal display of psychological androgyny
Educated Women's Career Patterns
This paper presents a secondary analysis of selected work and family variables drawn from a longitudinal study of educated American women. In it, we attempt to separate the effects of normative social change, cohort‐specific change, and developmental or life cycle change. Comparisons within and across time indicate that some relations (for example, between marital status and number of children and labor force participation) may shift due to broad…
Obituary
Obituary
Looking into Observational Methods
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Memorial for Clara Mayo, SPSSI President
The school of hard knocks
1985). The school of hard knocks: Nonverbal sexism in the classroom. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 24, Classroom Communication/Verbal and Nonverbal, pp. 40-44
Stories Knowledge Engineers Tell About Expert Systems
This paper describes part of a more extensive investigation of the values operating in the development and implementation of expert systems. The data come from a group of beginning knowledge engineers who have participated in a corporate sponsored Intelligent Systems Training Program. As part of the training they were asked to complete a number of stories describing a fictional knowledge engineer encountering a non-technical complication while bu…
What are experts for
School for Scandal
Some would argue that sex discrimination in educational settings is on the wane. This paper, drawing especially from research undertaken in North American settings will contend however that the announcement of its demise is premature. Research shows that gender inequality in the classroom continues and is manifest in and maintained by a variety of overlearned, non‐conscious, verbal and non‐verbal messages initiated in interactions between teacher…
Excavation, Capture, Collection, and Creation
Excavation, Capture, Collection, and Creation
This article describes how practitioners in artificial intelligence describe the transfer of expertise from human experts to computer programs called expert systems. These programs are designed to mimic human problem-solving expertise in specific domains. The metaphors are drawn from several sources that describe how such systems are built and also from interviews with veteran expert-system programmers. Four central metaphors are identified: "EXC…
Gender and Interruptions
Does gender affect reactions to violations of expected conversational behavior? This study examined ratings of interactants involved in interruptive exchanges. Audio recordings of two-person interactions that varied in gender composition but were identical in script features were rated by judges on several scales, including the degree to which participants were seen to be argumentative, rude, and assertive. Results showed that interrupter sex did…
Interpersonal Verbs, Gender, and Implicit Causality
In the present report we describe a series of studies investigating whether women and men are regarded as equivalently able to cause outcomes in social interaction. Two experiments plus a follow-up study varied sex of actors, sex of recipients, and verb type and examined who is perceived to be more causal in brief verbal descriptions of interpersonal events. Results show that the gender of participants in a social interaction significantly affect…
A Social Constructionist Diet
Schooling Desire
Real Versus Imagined Gender Harassment
Sexual harassment studies that use hypothetical situations and retrospective surveys may overestimate the degree to which victims actually confront their harassers. The result is that immediate emotional reactions are little understood and victims are often taken to task for nonconfrontational behavior. To address this neglect, we describe our experimental investigation of immediate reactions to sexually harassing questions encountered during a r…
II. Smile Boycotts and Other Body Politics
II. Smile Boycotts and Other Body Politics
Body Objectification and “Fat Talk”
The Correlates and Consequences of Newspaper Reports of Research on Sex Differences
Correlates and consequences of newspaper accounts of research on sex differences were examined. In Study 1, articles from high-circulation newspapers were coded for the degree to which biological factors were used to explain sex differences. Results showed that political conservatism and traditional attitudes toward gender roles coded from other newspaper sections predicted greater use of biological explanations than did political liberalism and …
Émancipation ou colonisation
À partir des Études culturelles féministes et postmodernistes, nous procédons à l’analyse de messages publicitaires réalisés par la compagnie Nike. Nous avançons que la « colonisation » du corps féminin faite par cette compagnie a nourri le sentiment postféministe dans l’imaginaire nord-américain. Nous illustrons la façon dont Nike a envahi l’univers sémiotique et social tout en misant sur des stratégies mondialistes qui permettent l’exploitation…
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