Implicit and explicit perception of gender discrimination. |
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Adams-Shorter, Alexis
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U Maryland Coll Park, US
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7/2000
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Dissertation
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Dissertation-Abstracts-International:-Section-B:-The-Sciences-and-Engineering
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Vol 61(1-B): 585
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Women, Research, Sex-Discrimination
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| Abstract |
The focus of the current research is on the perception of gender discrimination within women. In two studies, female participants read a scenario in which a job applicant was the target of potentially discriminatory treatment. While reading the scenario, half of the participants imagined themselves as this target, the other half imagined another woman. Participants then completed an implicit measure of initial perceptions of gender discrimination and two measures of their subsequent attributional processing for the cause of the treatment described in the scenario. Students who were either high or low in gender-prejudice accessibility were recruited for participation. I predicted that all participants would indicate an implicit perception of discrimination, but that only the participants who imagined another woman as the target would indicate an explicit attribution of discrimination. As shown in previous research, I expected that those who imagined themselves as the target would engage in explicit denial of discrimination for self-protective reasons. I also predicted that participants who were high in gender-prejudice accessibility would be more likely than those who were low in accessibility to indicate both an implicit perception and explicit attribution of discrimination. The results of Study 1 demonstrated that participants who had imagined another woman as the target were more likely to implicitly perceive unfair treatment than those who imagined themselves as the target. The results of Studies 1 and 2 showed that participants who imagined another woman as the target were also more likely to explicitly attribute the outcome of the scenario to gender discrimination than those who had imagined themselves. Those who imagined themselves as the target were more likely to form explicit attributions to the weakness of their own personal characteristics and performance for the cause of the unjust treatment than those who imagined another woman. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)
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