Marianne Lafrance
Biographic Data
| ID | 3884994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Lafrance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Lafrance |
| SIGNATURE | LAFRANCE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| 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
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…
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…
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 …
Body Objectification and “Fat Talk”
The contingent smile
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…
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…
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…
What are experts for
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
Obituary
Obituary
Memorial for Clara Mayo, SPSSI President
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…
The nonverbal display of psychological androgyny
Nonverbal Synchrony and Rapport
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
The contingent smile
Beyond generalized sexual prejudice
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…
Implicit androcentrism
The nonverbal display of psychological androgyny
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…
About face
Lay Conceptions of Sexual Minority Groups
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
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
What are experts for
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…
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…
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…
Body Objectification and “Fat Talk”
The contingent smile
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 …
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…
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…
Lay Conceptions of Sexual Minority Groups
Nancy M. Henley (1934–2016)
Beyond generalized sexual prejudice
About face
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…
Implicit Reactions to Women in High Power Body Postures
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (11 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (5 works) · Nonverbal communication (5 works)