Manuela Barreto
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583600 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Barreto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Barreto |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6973-7233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 688 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Does Romantic Involvement Benefit Everyone? Testing a Foundational Tenet in Relationship Science Through the Case of Asexuality
It is established that romantic relationships can benefit well-being and buffer against loneliness. But is that true for everyone? We put this foundational tenet of relationship science to the test by examining whether asexual people (i.e., people who generally do not experience sexual attraction and desire) benefit from romantic involvement. Results from the BBC Loneliness Experiment showed that, unlike heterosexual ( N = 36,464) and other sexua…
“Lockdown didn't feel any different to us” social experiences of parents of autistic children in the United Kingdom and in China
Parents of autistic children experience significant social challenges all around the world. In this research, semi-structured interviews were used to examine the social experiences of parents of autistic children in two contexts: The United Kingdom (UK) and China. Fifteen parents in each country reported their social experiences, which were analysed through thematic analysis. Four themes were identified in the Chinese interviews: Stigma, coping w…
Structural stigma: A systematic review of existing measures
Researchers interested in structural stigma have used a variety of operationalizations and measures of this concept, which can create difficulties in the selection of appropriate measures, as well as in the comparison and interpretation of findings from different studies. We report on a systematic review of existing measures to facilitate further research in this important field. A total of 21,365 articles were screened, and 337 were included in …
Sleep and Socioemotional Outcomes Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study
Sexual and gender minority adolescents face specific stressors associated with their minority status, leading to compromised socioemotional outcomes and sleep. Sleep patterns have, in turn, been found to predict socioemotional outcomes. As such, we aimed to investigate whether healthy sleep patterns prospectively predicted socioemotional outcomes, and whether associations varied as a function of sexual and gender minority status. We conducted a s…
Understanding the psychological, relational, sociocultural, and demographic predictors of loneliness using explainable machine learning
Brief report. Complete research materials, datasets, and data analysis scripts are available at https://osf.io/9mvbk/?view_only=6497e5306e9e47bdbe270a7f82fd1d71
Extending the scope for resistance to gender-based devaluation
This review focuses on resistance to experiences of group-based devaluation, specifically in the context of gender. This literature has seen considerable development in recent years – we outline this development and review the empirical evidence that supports it. The first section of the review discusses definitional issues surrounding resistance. The second section describes how the literature on resistance has developed, with particular attenti…
To conceal or reveal: Identity‐conscious diversity ideologies facilitate sexual minority identity disclosure
Sexual minorities continue to face workplace discrimination, which leads to them experiencing concerns about disclosing their own sexual identities. Despite the benefits of disclosure, relatively little research has examined what organizational factors can work together to foster disclosure of a sexual minority identity. Across five experiments ( N = 1662), we examined two main factors: diversity ideologies and information about diversity climate…
Changing the narrative: Loneliness as a social justice issue
Loneliness is most often understood as resulting from individual deficits that shape poor social engagement and unsatisfying interactions. As a consequence, interventions to address loneliness most often focus on fixing the lonely individual, for example, by modifying their social appraisals and skills, or encouraging them to get out more. In this paper, we characterize and contribute to changing this dominant narrative by arguing that it is both…
Fit to belong: Loneliness from the perspectives of adolescents from five European countries
Previous qualitative research has explored how adolescents conceptualise loneliness, but, there is currently no examination of whether loneliness is understood differently by adolescents in different countries. To address that gap, the current study used semi-structured interviews to explore what loneliness is, and how to cope with it, from the perspectives of 29 adolescents (15 male, 14 female), aged 14–16 years from Lithuania ( n = 6), Poland (…
Loneliness During the School Years: How It Affects Learning and How Schools Can Help
BACKGROUND: Substantial evidence links loneliness to poor academic outcomes and poor employment prospects. Schools have been shown to be places that mitigate or aggravate loneliness, suggesting a need to consider how schools can better support youth experiencing loneliness. METHODS: We conducted a narrative review on loneliness in childhood and adolescence to examine the literature on how loneliness changes over the school years and how it influe…
Toward a More Relational Model of Sexual Minority Identity Concealment
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A systematic review of psychosocial functioning changes after gender-affirming hormone therapy among transgender people
This systematic review assessed the state and quality of evidence for effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on psychosocial functioning. Forty-six relevant journal articles (six qualitative, 21 cross-sectional, 19 prospective cohort) were identified. Gender-affirming hormone therapy was consistently found to reduce depressive symptoms and psychological distress. Evidence for quality of life was inconsistent, with some trends suggesting impr…
Loneliness in Older Migrants: Exploring the Role of Cultural Differences in Their Loneliness Experience
The results show that the structural factor of the social environment in which older migrants' find themselves, rather than their culture of origin, is more important for older migrants' feelings of loneliness in later life. A favorable social environment with high social capital and low levels of discrimination and ageism protects against loneliness in the ageing population across cultures. Practical implications for loneliness interventions for…
From a guy’s perspective’? Male students, masculinity and autobiographical loneliness narratives
While student loneliness is increasingly visible on the research agenda, the relationship between gender and loneliness among students remains unclear. This article employs a feminist perspective on loneliness to interrogate the role of masculinity in shaping male students’ experiences of loneliness at a UK Russell Group university. We argue that a feminist approach to male students’ loneliness decentres masculinity as an explanatory and potentia…
What Would a “Reasonable Person” Do? Exploring the Gap Between Experienced and Anticipated Responses to Sexual Harassment
Individuals who are sexually harassed often do not formally report their experience. Current understandings of this focus on the procedural barriers to reporting rather than examining whether and how reporting meets the needs of those who experience harassment. We document the repertoire of needs experienced by those who are sexually harassed and the actions they take to meet them. In two quasi-experimental studies ( Ns = 415 and 589), we compare…
Stigma, identity and support in social relationships of transgender people throughout transition: A qualitative analysis of multiple perspectives
Supportive social relationships are vital for health and well‐being as they serve to ameliorate stress and therefore reduce the likelihood of suffering from disease across the life course. This social support could be more essential for transgender people, who experience unique social stress due to their marginalized status. The current study compared and contrasted the experiential accounts of transgender people, their relational partners and ge…
Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science
Research on the relational effects of stigma must move beyond the intergroup context and, most importantly, focus upon the ways in which stigma itself shapes social relationships. In order to more deeply investigate the relational consequences of social stigma, researchers interested in this topic need to consider the potential contributions of relationship science. Drawing upon past theory, we pose four overarching questions that may help bridge…
Adolescent loneliness across the world and its relation to school climate, national culture and academic performance
BackgroundLoneliness during adolescence has adverse consequences for mental health, education and employment outcomes. Yet, we know little about common correlates of loneliness among adolescents, making intervention work difficult.AimsIn this study, we (1) explore individual-, school- and country-level correlates of loneliness to help identify potential intervention targets, and (2) examine the influence of loneliness on academic performance.Samp…
Benevolent and hostile sexism in a shifting global context
Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions
Choking under pressure: Does it get easier with age? How loneliness affects social monitoring across the life span
Previous experimental work showed that young adults reporting loneliness performed less well on emotion recognition tasks (Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy [DANVA-2]) if they were framed as indicators of social aptitude, but not when the same tasks were framed as indexing academic aptitude. Such findings suggested that undergraduates reporting loneliness possessed the social monitoring skills necessary to read the emotions underlying oth…
Mind the gap! Stereotype exposure discourages women from expressing the anger they feel about gender inequality
This work examines strategic factors that impact women's intention to express anger. Research suggests that women express anger to a lesser extent than they experience it (Hyers, 2007; Swim et al., 2010), and we focus on the role of gender stereotypes in this phenomenon. We differentiate two "routes" by which gender stereotypes can lead women to avoid expressions of anger. First, in the stereotype disconfirmation route, women become motivated to …
Heroes or traitors? Perception of whistleblowers depends on the self-relevance of the group being reported
Whistleblowing is the action by which members of an organization report misconduct that occurs within their group to other persons inside or outside the organization. In the present research, we examined perception of whistleblowers in terms of global impressions, emotions, and behavioural intentions. Study 1 reveals negative reactions to whistleblowers, while Study 2 shows positive reactions to whistleblowers. To reconcile these findings, Study …
Exploring the nature and variation of the stigma associated with loneliness
The current study uses data from The British Broadcasting Corporation Loneliness Experiment to explore the social stigma of loneliness and how it varies by gender, age and cultural individualism. We examined stigmatizing judgements of people who are lonely (impressions of those who feel lonely and attributions for loneliness), perceived stigma in the community and self-stigma (shame for being lonely and inclination to conceal loneliness), while c…
Loneliness around the world: Age, gender, and cultural differences in loneliness
The BBC Loneliness Experiment provided a unique opportunity to examine differences in the experience of lonelines across cultures, age, and gender, and the interaction between these factors. Using those data, we analysed the frequency of loneliness reported by 46,054 participants aged 16-99 years, living across 237 countries, islands, and territories, representing the full range of individualism-collectivism cultures, as defined by Hofstede (1997…
Group virtue: The importance of morality (vs. competence and sociability) in the positive evaluation of in-groups
Group virtue: the importance of morality (vs.competence and sociability) in Group virtue: the importance of morality (vs
Hidden costs of hiding stigma: Ironic interpersonal consequences of concealing a stigmatized identity in social interactions
The burden of benevolent sexism: How it contributes to the maintenance of gender inequalities
This study (N = 235) examines the responses of male and female participants to information about the alleged endorsement of either hostile or benevolent sexist beliefs by a sample of either men or women. We predicted that people endorsing benevolent sexist statements would be less likely to be perceived as sexist than those endorsing hostile sexist views, and examined the judgmental process through which people fail to recognize benevolent sexism…
Experiences of Loneliness Associated with Being an Informal Caregiver: A Qualitative Investigation
Although providing care to a family member or friend may provide psychological benefits, informal (i.e. unpaid) caregivers also encounter difficulties which may negatively affect their quality of life as well as their mental and physical health. Loneliness is one important challenge that caregivers face, with this psychological state being associated with morbidity and premature mortality. Although previous research has identified loneliness as a…
Is it better to be moral than smart? The effects of morality and competence norms on the decision to work at group status improvement
Three studies examined strategies of status improvement in experimentally created (Study 1 and 2) and preexisting (Study 3) low-status groups. Theory and prior research suggested that an in-group norm that established a particular strategy of status improvement as moral (rather than competent) would have a greater effect on individuals' decision to work at this strategy. Both Study 1 and Study 2 found that morality norms had a greater impact than…
How Nice of Us and How Dumb of Me: The Effect of Exposure to Benevolent Sexism on Women’s Task and Relational Self-Descriptions
People Like Me Don't Belong Here: Identity Concealment is Associated with Negative Workplace Experiences
In two studies, we examined the impact of concealing (vs. revealing) a stigmatized identity in the context of a recalled or imagined social interaction with one's coworkers. We propose that although people may choose to conceal stigmatized identities in order to increase their chances of acceptance and belonging, identity concealment in fact reduces feelings of belonging and results in negative work‐related outcomes. Participants possessing a con…
Working under cover: Performance‐related self‐confidence among members of contextually devalued groups who try to pass
This paper experimentally examines the effects of passing (versus revealing) a contextually devalued identity on performance‐related self‐confidence. An experimental scenario was developed on the basis of the results of a pilot study. Studies 1 and 2 (total N = 255) experimentally manipulate passing versus revealing a contextually devalued identity, to an ingroup or an outgroup partner. The results show that, although passing makes participants b…
The Perils of Political Correctness: Men's and Women's Responses to Old-Fashioned and Modern Sexist Views
In this study we examined the responses of male and female research participants to information about the endorsement of either old-fashioned or modern sexist views by a sample of either men or women. We predicted that expressions of modern sexism may seem unobjectionable but can have negative consequences. Moreover, they can impair behavioral responses and therefore remain unchallenged. The results show that female participants in particular wer…
Exploring the nature and variation of the stigma associated with loneliness
The current study uses data from The British Broadcasting Corporation Loneliness Experiment to explore the social stigma of loneliness and how it varies by gender, age and cultural individualism. We examined stigmatizing judgements of people who are lonely (impressions of those who feel lonely and attributions for loneliness), perceived stigma in the community and self-stigma (shame for being lonely and inclination to conceal loneliness), while c…
Collective Action in Modern Times: How Modern Expressions of Prejudice Prevent Collective Action
This contribution addresses modern forms of group‐based discrimination, and examines how these impact upon the likelihood that people engage in collective action. Based on a review of the relevant literature, we predict that modern expressions of prejudice are less likely to be perceived as indicating group‐based disadvantage and hence elicit less anger, protest, and collective action than old‐fashioned prejudice. We present three studies to offe…
Relational consequences of stigma: Bridging research on social stigma with relationship science
Research on the relational effects of stigma must move beyond the intergroup context and, most importantly, focus upon the ways in which stigma itself shapes social relationships. In order to more deeply investigate the relational consequences of social stigma, researchers interested in this topic need to consider the potential contributions of relationship science. Drawing upon past theory, we pose four overarching questions that may help bridge…
Social relationship experiences of transgender people and their relational partners: A meta-synthesis
The Collective Value of “Me” (and its Limitations): Towards a More Nuanced Understanding of Individual and Collective Coping with Prejudice
Within the social identity tradition, individual and collective responses to social disadvantage are typically seen as mutually exclusive. This study ( N = 120) provides a more nuanced understanding of individual and collective responses to social disadvantage by examining the ways in which women anticipate responding to “daily sexism.” We test how responses are independently related to ingroup identification, disidentification, and perceived ing…
Ways to Go: Men's and Women's Support for Aggressive and Nonaggressive Confrontation of Sexism as a Function of Gender Identification
This research examines male and female perceivers’ reactions to a female target who (1) confronted sexism nonaggressively, (2) confronted sexism aggressively (by slapping the perpetrator), or (3) did not confront sexism. Results (N = 152) indicated that, overall, both women and men responded most favorably to the female target who confronted nonaggressively. Nonaggressive confrontation was perceived as relatively unthreatening for women and relat…
Men as Allies Against Sexism: The Positive Effects of a Suggestion of Sexism by Male (vs. Female) Sources
Sexism is often expressed in subtle and ambiguous ways, causing targets to doubt their own capabilities or to show stereotype-confirming behavior. This research examines whether the self-confidence and stereotype (dis-)confirming behavior of targets of sexism can be bolstered when other male versus female sources suggest that sexism may have played a role. Both Study 1 ( N = 78) and Study 2 ( N = 90) show that a suggestion of sexism has more bene…
Changing the narrative: Loneliness as a social justice issue
Loneliness is most often understood as resulting from individual deficits that shape poor social engagement and unsatisfying interactions. As a consequence, interventions to address loneliness most often focus on fixing the lonely individual, for example, by modifying their social appraisals and skills, or encouraging them to get out more. In this paper, we characterize and contribute to changing this dominant narrative by arguing that it is both…
You’re either with us or against us! Moral conviction determines how the politicized distinguish friend from foe
Three studies investigated how politicized collective identification affects individuals’ reactions towards others. We hypothesized that a strong politicized identity tends to be accompanied by a moral conviction about the politicized cause, which in turn determines how the politicized respond to those less committed to their cause. Consistent with this, Study 1 showed that politicized (feminist) identification is associated with lower identifica…
What did You Say, and Who do You Think You Are?” How Power Differences Affect Emotional Reactions to Prejudice: Power and Prejudice
Three studies examine how power differences between targets and sources of prejudice affect targets' emotional reactions to prejudice. Study 1 first demonstrates that people do not expect powerful others to be prejudiced. Studies 2 and 3 then examine what happens when targets encounter prejudice, as a function of the source's power. Targets notice and recall prejudiced statements from powerful sources, irrespective of whether or not they are pers…
Current Issues in the Study of Social Stigma: Some Controversies and Unresolved Issues
This contribution identifies some of the major themes and controversies in current research on stigma and social disadvantage, paying particular attention to the perspective of the stigmatized. We examine the social contextual and interactive nature of stigmatization that determines its impact and consequences for those who are stigmatized. We outline some areas of research where different findings seem incompatible or have remained unresolved. S…
For better or for worse: The congruence of personal and group outcomes on targets' responses to discrimination
This paper reports two studies examining how (in‐) congruence between personal and group outcomes affects emotional well‐being, outcome attributions and procedural justice perceptions of individuals who are exposed to subtle discrimination. In Study 1 (N = 82) participants are either accepted or rejected in a (bogus) job application procedure, and either do or do not receive additional information indicating group‐level disadvantage. In Study 2 (…
Stigma, identity and support in social relationships of transgender people throughout transition: A qualitative analysis of multiple perspectives
Supportive social relationships are vital for health and well‐being as they serve to ameliorate stress and therefore reduce the likelihood of suffering from disease across the life course. This social support could be more essential for transgender people, who experience unique social stress due to their marginalized status. The current study compared and contrasted the experiential accounts of transgender people, their relational partners and ge…
The norms associated with climate change: Understanding social norms through acts of interpersonal activism
Putting identity into the community: Exploring the social dynamics of urban regeneration
The present paper adopts a social identity perspective to examine the relationship between community‐based identification and well‐being, resilience and willingness to pay back in the context of urban regeneration. A sample of 104 residents across five deprived urban areas in the southwest of England that have recently undergone or are about to undergo regeneration projects completed a survey. The results demonstrate that areas where a more commu…
What hostile and benevolent sexism communicate about men’s and women’s warmth and competence
Ambivalent sexism theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996) distinguishes between two interrelated forms of sexism: Hostile and benevolent. Although this theory motivated a large body of work examining how endorsement of these views impacts on social interactions and women’s performance, no research has yet examined what these forms of sexism are seen to communicate about men and women. We report three studies examining the image that benevolent and hostile s…
The effects of being categorised: The interplay between internal and external social identities
In this chapter, we consider the independent and interactive effects of internal categorisations (how people see themselves) and external categorisations (how they are categorised by others) on social behaviour. Our point of departure is that people do not necessarily accept external categorisations that are imposed upon them (regardless of whether these refer to artificially constructed or naturally occurring groups) and that this affects their …
The Perils of Political Correctness: Men's and Women's Responses to Old-Fashioned and Modern Sexist Views
In this study we examined the responses of male and female research participants to information about the endorsement of either old-fashioned or modern sexist views by a sample of either men or women. We predicted that expressions of modern sexism may seem unobjectionable but can have negative consequences. Moreover, they can impair behavioral responses and therefore remain unchallenged. The results show that female participants in particular wer…
The burden of benevolent sexism: How it contributes to the maintenance of gender inequalities
This study (N = 235) examines the responses of male and female participants to information about the alleged endorsement of either hostile or benevolent sexist beliefs by a sample of either men or women. We predicted that people endorsing benevolent sexist statements would be less likely to be perceived as sexist than those endorsing hostile sexist views, and examined the judgmental process through which people fail to recognize benevolent sexism…
Categorization in everyday life: The effects of positive and negative categorizations on emotions and self-views
This study investigates how everyday categorization experiences affect people's emotional responses and self-views. A representative Dutch population sample (N = 463) was asked to recount a situation in which they were categorized by others. This resulted in a range of categories that were spontaneously evoked by research participants. Participants were asked to think of a situation either where the categorization resulted in negative or in posit…
Working under cover: Performance‐related self‐confidence among members of contextually devalued groups who try to pass
This paper experimentally examines the effects of passing (versus revealing) a contextually devalued identity on performance‐related self‐confidence. An experimental scenario was developed on the basis of the results of a pilot study. Studies 1 and 2 (total N = 255) experimentally manipulate passing versus revealing a contextually devalued identity, to an ingroup or an outgroup partner. The results show that, although passing makes participants b…
Group virtue: The importance of morality (vs. competence and sociability) in the positive evaluation of in-groups
Group virtue: the importance of morality (vs.competence and sociability) in Group virtue: the importance of morality (vs
Is it better to be moral than smart? The effects of morality and competence norms on the decision to work at group status improvement
Three studies examined strategies of status improvement in experimentally created (Study 1 and 2) and preexisting (Study 3) low-status groups. Theory and prior research suggested that an in-group norm that established a particular strategy of status improvement as moral (rather than competent) would have a greater effect on individuals' decision to work at this strategy. Both Study 1 and Study 2 found that morality norms had a greater impact than…
How Nice of Us and How Dumb of Me: The Effect of Exposure to Benevolent Sexism on Women’s Task and Relational Self-Descriptions
When Searching Hurts: The Role of Information Search in Reactions to Gender Discrimination
For better or for worse: The congruence of personal and group outcomes on targets' responses to discrimination
This paper reports two studies examining how (in‐) congruence between personal and group outcomes affects emotional well‐being, outcome attributions and procedural justice perceptions of individuals who are exposed to subtle discrimination. In Study 1 (N = 82) participants are either accepted or rejected in a (bogus) job application procedure, and either do or do not receive additional information indicating group‐level disadvantage. In Study 2 (…
Collective Action in Modern Times: How Modern Expressions of Prejudice Prevent Collective Action
This contribution addresses modern forms of group‐based discrimination, and examines how these impact upon the likelihood that people engage in collective action. Based on a review of the relevant literature, we predict that modern expressions of prejudice are less likely to be perceived as indicating group‐based disadvantage and hence elicit less anger, protest, and collective action than old‐fashioned prejudice. We present three studies to offe…
Experiencing Discrimination: How Members of Disadvantaged Groups Can Be Helped to Cope with Discrimination
Instances of discriminatory treatment are often ambiguous. Nevertheless, for policy makers to effectively combat discrimination, its targets first need to see that it takes place. Different motives determine whether or not targets see their negative outcomes as resulting from discrimination: to see the world as a just place where people are treated fairly, and to maintain a positive view of the self. We argue that the type of policy needed to com…
What did You Say, and Who do You Think You Are?” How Power Differences Affect Emotional Reactions to Prejudice: Power and Prejudice
Three studies examine how power differences between targets and sources of prejudice affect targets' emotional reactions to prejudice. Study 1 first demonstrates that people do not expect powerful others to be prejudiced. Studies 2 and 3 then examine what happens when targets encounter prejudice, as a function of the source's power. Targets notice and recall prejudiced statements from powerful sources, irrespective of whether or not they are pers…
Current Issues in the Study of Social Stigma: Some Controversies and Unresolved Issues
This contribution identifies some of the major themes and controversies in current research on stigma and social disadvantage, paying particular attention to the perspective of the stigmatized. We examine the social contextual and interactive nature of stigmatization that determines its impact and consequences for those who are stigmatized. We outline some areas of research where different findings seem incompatible or have remained unresolved. S…
Responding to Gender-Based Rejection: Objecting Against Negative and Disproving Positive Intergroup Differentiation
We examined whether women ( N = 87) who are exposed to blatant discrimination show different responses depending on whether they are rejected with reference to positively (“this is something for men”) or negatively (“this is nothing for women”) phrased intergroup differentiation. Based on current insights on responses to discrimination, we predicted and found that those who are exposed to negative differentiation will tend to object to those who …
Sexism in Contemporary Societies: How it isExpressed, Perceived, Confirmed, and Resisted
Morality and behavioural regulation in groups: A social identity approach
In recent years social psychologists have displayed a growing interest in examining morality—what people consider right and wrong. The majority of work in this area has addressed this either in terms of individual-level processes (relating to moral decision making or interpersonal impression formation) or as a way to explain intergroup relations (perceived fairness of status differences, responses to group-level moral transgressions). We compleme…
Power and Identity
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Ways to Go: Men's and Women's Support for Aggressive and Nonaggressive Confrontation of Sexism as a Function of Gender Identification
This research examines male and female perceivers’ reactions to a female target who (1) confronted sexism nonaggressively, (2) confronted sexism aggressively (by slapping the perpetrator), or (3) did not confront sexism. Results (N = 152) indicated that, overall, both women and men responded most favorably to the female target who confronted nonaggressively. Nonaggressive confrontation was perceived as relatively unthreatening for women and relat…
Hidden costs of hiding stigma: Ironic interpersonal consequences of concealing a stigmatized identity in social interactions
Men as Allies Against Sexism: The Positive Effects of a Suggestion of Sexism by Male (vs. Female) Sources
Sexism is often expressed in subtle and ambiguous ways, causing targets to doubt their own capabilities or to show stereotype-confirming behavior. This research examines whether the self-confidence and stereotype (dis-)confirming behavior of targets of sexism can be bolstered when other male versus female sources suggest that sexism may have played a role. Both Study 1 ( N = 78) and Study 2 ( N = 90) show that a suggestion of sexism has more bene…
You’re either with us or against us! Moral conviction determines how the politicized distinguish friend from foe
Three studies investigated how politicized collective identification affects individuals’ reactions towards others. We hypothesized that a strong politicized identity tends to be accompanied by a moral conviction about the politicized cause, which in turn determines how the politicized respond to those less committed to their cause. Consistent with this, Study 1 showed that politicized (feminist) identification is associated with lower identifica…
The Collective Value of “Me” (and its Limitations): Towards a More Nuanced Understanding of Individual and Collective Coping with Prejudice
Within the social identity tradition, individual and collective responses to social disadvantage are typically seen as mutually exclusive. This study ( N = 120) provides a more nuanced understanding of individual and collective responses to social disadvantage by examining the ways in which women anticipate responding to “daily sexism.” We test how responses are independently related to ingroup identification, disidentification, and perceived ing…
What hostile and benevolent sexism communicate about men’s and women’s warmth and competence
Ambivalent sexism theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996) distinguishes between two interrelated forms of sexism: Hostile and benevolent. Although this theory motivated a large body of work examining how endorsement of these views impacts on social interactions and women’s performance, no research has yet examined what these forms of sexism are seen to communicate about men and women. We report three studies examining the image that benevolent and hostile s…
Revealing side effects of quota rules on group cooperation
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