What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context

By A. Eagly, Amanda Diekman. 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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No Place for a Woman: Evidence for Gender Bias in Evaluations of Presidential Candidates (2007, background): “Many individuals are, after all, motivated to avoid prejudice (Devine, 1989), and acknowledgement of a gender-bias is a first step in reducing sexism (Eagly & Diekman, 2005).”
Boys Don’t Play with Dolls: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Gender Talk during Picture Book Reading (2014, background): “These findings converge with role congruency theory, which states that people tend to view deviations from expected gender roles negatively (Eagly & Diekman, 2005).”
Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination: Theoretical and empirical overview (2010, background): “In particular, people infer the characteristics of groups based on the social roles they occupy (Hoffman & Hurst, 1990; Eagly & Diekman, 2005; Jost & Banaji, 1994).”
Female Leadership Advantage and Disadvantage: Resolving the Contradictions (2007, background): “Such disadvantage would be prejudicial, as defined by less favorable treatment of women than men, despite their objective equality (Eagly & Diekman, 2005).”
There’s More Than Meets the Eye: Facial Appearance and Evaluations of Transsexual People (2010, unknown): “The theory has not been explicitly applied to prejudice toward transsexuals, but it has been applied to related forms of prejudice such as sexism (Eagly and Diekman 2005; Rudman 2005).”
Stereotypical Inferences as Mediators of Age Discrimination: The Role of Competence and Warmth (2011, unknown): “However, selection decisions further depend on what is required within a specific role, as suggested by congruity theories of discrimination (Eagly and Diekman, 2005; Heilman, 1983).”
Rolling with the Changes: A Role Congruity Perspective on Gender Norms (2006, background): “…A ROLE CONGRUITY PERSPECTIVE ON GENDER NORMS Amanda B. Diekman Miami University Wind Goodfriend Boise State University Role congruity theory (e.g., Eagly & Diekman, 2005) posits that a group will be positively evaluated when its characteristics are perceived to align with the requirements of the…”
What signals matter for social startups? It depends: The influence of gender role congruity on social impact accelerator selection decisions (2019, background): “When female entrepreneurs send signals communicating agentic/Darwinian traits (e.g., determination and competitiveness; Eagly, 1987; Eagly and Diekman, 2005; Eagly and Wood, 2011; Fauchart and Gruber, 2011) that violate beliefs about how women ought to behave, SIAs appear to view them as less credib”