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Higher social power increases occupational gender stereotyping in Chinese culture

Authors: Xiaobin Zhang, Qiong Li, Bin Zuo

Published in: Cognitive Processing | Issue 3/2019

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Prior studies have used the perspective of the social function of social power (such as how power affects interpersonal interaction between the powerful and the powerless) to explore how powerful people stereotype powerless people. In the present research, we further explored how high and low levels of social power affect occupational gender stereotyping from the perspective of how social power affects cognitive processing, that is, social categorization. We proposed that higher social power-primed participants, compared to low social power-primed participants, would be more inclined to use category-based representation and thus use stereotyping. In two studies, we investigated these effects and found that high social power, compared to low social power, increased occupational gender stereotyping in Chinese culture.

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The results of a 2 (social power: high versus low) × 2 (occupations: stereotypical occupations versus neutral occupations) ANOVA was the same as the analysis in the text. The analysis revealed that the social power × occupation interaction was significant, F(1, 49) = 4.43, p < .05, \(\eta^{2}\) = .08. A simple effects analysis demonstrated that the scores on stereotypical occupations for the HSPP participants were significantly higher than the scores for the LSPP participants, F(1, 49) = 5.61, p < .05, \(\eta^{2}\) = .10. Alternatively, there were no significant differences between the scores on neutral occupations for the HSPP participants and the scores for the LSPP participants, F(1, 49) = .15, p > .10, \(\eta^{2}\) = .03.

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Title: Higher social power increases occupational gender stereotyping in Chinese culture
Authors: Xiaobin Zhang
Qiong Li
Bin Zuo
Publication date: 02-01-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Cognitive Processing / Issue 3/2019
Print ISSN: 1612-4782
Electronic ISSN: 1612-4790
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0899-9

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