Evidence for the social role theory of stereotype content: observations of groups' roles shape stereotypes.

By Anne M. Koenig, A. Eagly. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2014

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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What is a True Gamer? The Male Gamer Stereotype and the Marginalization of Women in Video Game Culture (2017, background): “They found that gamers were perceived as unpopular, unattractive, idle, and asocial, indicating a negatively valenced stereotype (Kowert et al., 2012). In the second study, they surveyed both gamers and non-gamers and compared their self-assessment with respect to the stereotyped attributes. No sign”
Gender and leadership emergence: A meta‐analysis and explanatory model (2018, background): “According to social role theory, these changes in the distribution of the labor force should be accompanied by changes in societal stereotypes of women (Koenig & Eagly, 2014; Weber & Crocker, 1983; Wood & Eagly, 2012).”
Why Does Workplace Gender Diversity Matter? Justice, Organizational Benefits, and Policy (2019, background): “Similarly, role congruity theory suggests that, as women become better represented in masculine occupational roles, stereotyping of women as communal will decrease (Koenig & Eagly, 2014).”
Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes III: Long-Term Change in Gender Stereotypes (2021, positive): “Such predictions are supported by experimental evidence of explicitly expressed stereotypes (e.g., Koenig & Eagly, 2014, 2019) as well as correlational evidence from single points in time (e.g., Miller et al., 2015).”
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words (2021, positive): “Indeed, the strength of gender– occupation stereotypes was significantly correlated with real-world gender distribution of occupations, suggesting a coupling between language and direct experience of the real world (Eagly & Wood, 2012).”
Microdynamics in diverse teams: A review and integration of the diversity and stereotyping literatures (2017, background): “More recently, Koenig and Eagly (2014) argued and found that competence consists of two separate constructs with distinct effects, namely competence (e.g., intelligence, skill) and agency (e.g., assertiveness, dominance) (see also Carrier, Louvet, Chauvin, & Rohmer, 2014).”
Stereotypes About Gender and Science (2016, background): “…were told that various social groups (e.g., White women, Black men, White men, etc.) would have different occupations in the future, participants’ stereotypes about those social groups were more affected by future occupational roles than by current group stereotypes (Koenig & Eagly, 2014).”
The Times They Are a-Changing … or Are They Not? A Comparison of Gender Stereotypes, 1983–2014 (2016, background): “Additional work by Koenig and Eagly (2014) provides further evidence for a causal link between changing occupational roles and inferred trait characteristics, supporting SRT’s assumptions that stereotypes follow from the roles that women and men are believed to occupy.”
Status Beliefs and the Spirit of Capitalism: Accounting for Gender Biases in Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2015, background): “Both survey and experimental studies indicate that men are often believed to be more competent and/or agentic than women (Correll and Ridgeway 2003; Fiske et al. 2002; Koenig and Eagly 2014).”
Is Man the Measure of All Things? A Social Cognitive Account of Androcentrism (2018, background): “…being more frequent in that profession (elementary school teachers and fashion models) and to female-linked traits and attributes defining that role (Asians, parents, and followers; consistent with social role theory, Eagly & Karau, 2002; Koenig & Eagly, 2014; Krefting, Berger, & Wallace, 1978).”