PSY323H1 Lecture Notes - Interpersonal Relationship, Role Theory, Sex Segregation
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In a few weeks the prof will ask us to send her a list of 3 articles we want to use. Prentice & carranza: study 2: -the expectation that women don"t have to be that smart, -intensified proscriptions, -women don"t have to be that smart-- applying that to average. Women are joining the labor source more! Women are doing more health related stuff. Females are doing well in terms of education- graduating with more secondary education. Close your eyes and conjure up a detailed image of a very aggressive construction worker. Close your eyes and conjure up a detailed image of a very aggressive lawyer. What you imagine is in concert with your expectation. We expect aggression to come with the territory of being a lawyer: stereotypes bias interpretation of ambiguous information in line with group membership-based expectations, perceptual confirmation. We focus on information that confirm the stereotype.
