Sökning: "Stereotypes Social psychology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 16 avhandlingar innehållade orden Stereotypes Social psychology.
1. Women and men in management : Stereotypes, evaluation and discourse
Sammanfattning : Very few women hold top corporate positions in Sweden, and women are underrepresented as managers in all work sectors. The present thesis examined stereotypes, perceptions and presuppositions about women, men and management with a combination of perspectives from social and organizational psychology, discourse analysis and gender in organization research. LÄS MER
2. Prejudice: The Interplay of Personality, Cognition, and Social Psychology
Sammanfattning : Three main theoretical approaches to the study of the causation of prejudice can be distinguished within psychological research. The cognitive approach suggests that prejudice is a function of cognitive processes where stereotypic information about social groups, stored in memory, is automatically activated and affects people’s judgements and behavior toward members of the target group. LÄS MER
3. Who is Woman and Who is Man? : Normativity at Intersections of Gender and Sexual Orientation
Sammanfattning : Current gender norms predominantly construct gender as an expression of binary sex categories that are different but complementary. A performative view of gender instead analyses gender as an emergent feature of social interactions that is created by the constant repetition of acts in relation to discourses of gender. LÄS MER
4. Stereotypes: Suppression, Forgetting, and False Memory
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents four studies investigating (1) whether incidentally primed control-related words can attenuate the impact of activated stereotypes on subsequent evaluation of a target person, (2) the impact of motivated forgetting on the recall of stereotypically congruent and incongruent information, and (3) the impact of a directed forgetting instruction on the false recall and recognition of nonpresented stereotypical information.In three experiments, Study I showed that participants initially primed with the social category, immigrant, and subsequently primed with words that were evocative of control or self-control made less negative impression of a target displaying ambiguous behaviors than participants not exposed to such words. LÄS MER
5. How does the job applicants' ethnicity affect the selection process? : Norms, Preferred competencies and expected fit
Sammanfattning : The present thesis aimed to study different factors influencing recruiters when recruiting from an applicant pool with applicants from an ethnic ingroup and outgroup. Ethnicity was predicted to influence recruiters’ perception and behaviour in different phases during recruitment. LÄS MER
