Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification.

By John T. Jost, Aaron C. Kay. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science, Social Sciences & Humanities

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Exposing and Correcting the Gender Bias in Image Captioning Datasets and Models (2019, background): “The issue of gender bias in language has been studied for several years [Holmes and Meyerhoﬀ, 2008, Beukeboom et al., 2014, Jost and Kay, 2005].”
Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings (2016, background): “Complimentary stereotypes are common between females and males, in which each gender is associated with strengths that are perceived to offset its own weaknesses and compliment the strengths of the other gender [20].”
When does a compliment become sexist? Analysis and classification of ambivalent sexism using twitter data (2017, background): “Furthermore, the experiments conducted by Russo et al. (2014) demonstrate how social justiﬁcation (Jost et al., 2004; Jost and Kay, 2005) and benevolent sexism are positively correlated.”
Bad Woman, Bad Victim? Disentangling the Effects of Victim Stereotypicality, Gender Stereotypicality and Benevolent Sexism on Acquaintance Rape Victim Blame (2010, background): “As such, Glick and Fiske (1997; see also Glick et al. 2000, who utilized samples from 19 nations) noted a universal ‘carrot’ and ‘stick’ relationship between the complementary ideologies of traditional antipathetic or hostile sexism and benevolent sexism that simultaneously served to both justify an”
Group virtue: the importance of morality (vs. competence and sociability) in the positive evaluation of in-groups. (2007, background): “In addition, the importance of morality is unclear because in the few studies that aimed to address morality, it was conflated with other characteristics , such as dominance (Phalet & Poppe, 1997) or sociability (Fiske et al., 2002; Jost & Kay, 2005; see also Wojciszke, 1994).”
Reducing the Endorsement of Sexism Using Experiential Learning (2014, background): “Sexism is manifest in the persistence of restrictive, limiting, and oppressive stereotypes (Jost & Kay, 2005), unequal pay and advancement rates (Ginther & Hayes, 2003), and sexual harassment (Hage, 2000).”
A Social Role Theory Perspective on Gender Gaps in Political Attitudes (2010, background): “Across several studies, men have been found to be higher in attitudes that justify the existing system (Jost & Kay, 2005) as well as in social dominance orientation, which reflects support for hierarchy and competition (Schmitt & Wirth, 2009; Sidanius, Pratto, & Bobo, 1994).”
Positive Stereotypes Are Pervasive and Powerful (2015, background): “Similarly, exposure to benevolent sexist stereotypes of women as more refined and cultured than men lead women to perceive the social system in general and the system of gender relations specifically as more legitimate (Jost & Kay, 2005).”
The Influence of Friends on Consumer Spending: The Role of Agency–Communion Orientation and Self-Monitoring (2011, background): “Eagly (1987) and Jost and Kay (2005) suggest that agentic stereotypes (e.g., ambitious, assertive, competent) and communal stereotypes (e.g., warm, considerate, modest) begin to emerge in childhood and are widely held and persistent.”
Complementary justice: effects of "poor but happy" and "poor but honest" stereotype exemplars on system justification and implicit activation of the justice motive. (2003, methodology): “The scale was constructed for this research program, in order to measure situational (rather than dispositional, as in BJW or PWE scales) effects on system justification (see also Jost & Kay, 2003).”
Warmth and Competence As Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map (2008, background): “Jost and Kay (2005) found that women who were merely exposed to items from the BS scale showed increased scores on a measure of system-justification.”
Explaining the Under-Representation of Women in Leadership Positions of Sport Organizations: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective (2007, background): “Jost and Kay (2005) recently demonstrated that when gender stereotypes are activated, both men and women embrace associated behaviors and endorse the status quo.”
Isolating stereotypical gender in a grammatical gender language: Evidence from eye movements (2014, background): “Both subscales are intercorrelated and can predict the endorsement of gender stereotypes (Jost & Kay, 2005) as well as the assignment of complementary roles to men and women.”
Thinking Well of African Americans: Measuring Complimentary Stereotypes and Negative Prejudice (2006, background): “Alternatively, as noted before, many posi- tive stereotypes have a corresponding and complementary negativity to them (e.g., Fiske et al., 2002; Jost & Kay, 2005).”
The Madonna-Whore Dichotomy: Men Who Perceive Women's Nurturance and Sexuality as Mutually Exclusive Endorse Patriarchy and Show Lower Relationship Satisfaction (2018, background): “…disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), participants completed a 5-item GenderSpecific System Justification questionnaire (translated by the authors from Jost and Kay 2005), which assesses legitimization of current gender relations and gender role divisions (e.g., "In general, relations between men and…”