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Social Psychology, Griffin N. Thayer
Social Psychology, Griffin N. Thayer
Open Educational Resources
A syllabus designed with OER concepts in mind to teach social psychology.
Gender Disparities In Awards To Neuroscience Researchers, David Melnikoff, Virginia Valian
Gender Disparities In Awards To Neuroscience Researchers, David Melnikoff, Virginia Valian
Publications and Research
Women in academia receive fewer prestigious awards than their male counterparts. Why this gender gap emerges, however, remains poorly understood. Thus, we tested multiple hypotheses about the proximate cause of the gender gap in award prestige. Our findings suggest that the gender gap in award prestige may emerge in part from gender schemas that portray women as warmer and less competent than men. Specifically, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that gender schemas lead to women’s papers receiving fewer citations than men’s papers, which in turn results in more prestigious awards for men than for women. Additionally, our results …