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Women In Leadership: Performance And Interpersonal Consequences Of Stereotype Threat, Samantha Haley Snyder
Women In Leadership: Performance And Interpersonal Consequences Of Stereotype Threat, Samantha Haley Snyder
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Women in leadership positions may experience stereotype threat when explicitly or implicitly reminded of gender and leader stereotypes. Increased worry about potentially confirming the stereotype should affect their behavior and perceptions in leadership situations. I used a 3 (article) x 2 (confederate gender) between-participants design. Female participants read an article that either made stereotypes explicit (explicit threat), countered stereotypes (threat nullification), or did not include stereotype-relevant information (implicit threat) and were assigned to lead a male or female confederate through the construction of a Lego model. I hypothesized that women in the implicit threat conditions (implicit article; male confederate) would …