Social Consensus Feedback as a Strategy to Overcome Spontaneous Gender Stereotypes

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11274037
AutoresEimear Finnegan (0000-0002-4587-8074, University of Sussex, autor correspondente), Alan Garnham (0000-0002-0058-403X, University of Sussex), Jane Oakhill (0000-0001-8810-3714, University of Sussex)
Ano2015
Volume52
Fascículo5-6
Páginas434-462
Data de publicação2015-07-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Processes (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0163-853X • E-ISSN: 1532-6950
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0163853x.2015.1026680
OpenAlexW1975241039
IdiomaEN
Referências 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