Gender-related biases in evaluations of sex discrimination allegations: Is perceived threat the key?
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Elkins, TJ; Phillips, JS; Konopaske, R
署名单位：
University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0021-9010
DOI：
10.1037/0021-9010.87.2.280
发表日期：
2002
页码：
280-292
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摘要：
Hypotheses derived from defensive attribution theory and social identity theory were tested in 3 laboratory experiments examining the effects of plaintiff and observer.-ender on perceived threat. plaintiff identification, and sex discrimination. In Study 1, women differentiated plaintiffs on the basis of gender, whereas men did not. Study 2 showed that this bias occurred because employment discrimination was personally threatening to women but not to men. In Study 3, the bias was reversed in a child custody context. As predicted, men found this context to be significantly more threatening than did women and subsequently exhibited a similarity bias. Mediation analyses suggested that responsibility attributions explained most of the variance in discrimination judgments associated with the plaintiff gender by observer gender interactions.
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