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- Title
Sexist Behavior Undermines Women's Performance in a Job Application Situation.
- Authors
Koch, Sabine; Konigorski, Stefan; Sieverding, Monika
- Abstract
Can sexist behavior in a job application context threaten women and cause them to underperform on a subsequent cognitive ability test? In a simulated job interview, 46 women and 46 men -- undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Heidelberg, Germany -- were confronted with either sexist (dominant and physically close) behavior by a male interviewer or non-sexist (friendly and neutral) behavior by the same confederate. Participants then solved math items and language-related items from a German standard intelligence test. In accordance with our hypothesis, the results indicated that female participants in the sexist condition performed significantly worse on the mathematical test than female participants in the control condition. The performance of female participants on the language-related test and male participants on both the math and language-related tests did not differ by experimental condition. After the sexist job interview, women's impaired performance, occurring on the math items only (i.e., specific to the domain in which women are negatively stereotyped), suggests an influence of psychological and interpersonal processes on seemingly objective test outcomes.
- Subjects
SEXISM; EMPLOYMENT interviewing; GENDER differences (Psychology); SEXISM in communication; PERFORMANCE evaluation; MATHEMATICS examinations, questions, etc.; LANGUAGE arts ability testing; STEREOTYPE threat; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sex Roles, 2014, Vol 70, Issue 3-4, p79
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11199-014-0342-3