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Montoya-Lozano M, Moreno-Bella E, García-Castro JD, Willis GB, Rodríguez-Bailón R. Spanish Adaptation of the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (S-SEIS). Psicothema 2023; 35:310-318. [PMID: 37493154 DOI: 10.7334/psicothema2022.226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study presents the adaptation and evidence of the validity of the Spanish version of the Support for Economic Inequality Scale (S-SEIS). This measure evaluates people’s tendency to have positive attitudes toward economic inequality. METHOD Two correlational studies were conducted, one exploratory ( N = 619) and one confirmatory ( N = 562). RESULTS S-SEIS showed good reliability in both studies. The factorial analysis showed a one-factor structure in Study 1 that was confirmed in Study 2. We also found a relationship between S-SEIS and other extensively used measures of attitudes toward inequality, such as intolerance toward inequality. S-SEIS positively correlates with belief in a just world, social dominance orientation (SDO), economic system justification (ESJ), institutional trust, and perceived democracy; it correlates negatively with intolerance toward inequality, perceived inequality, perceived warmth/competence of people in poverty and support for redistribution. CONCLUSIONS The current research findings suggest that S-SEIS is a valuable instrument for evaluating the support of economic inequality in Spanish samples.
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Sánchez-Rodríguez Á, Moreno-Bella E, García-Sánchez E. Mapping gender stereotypes: a network analysis approach. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1193866. [PMID: 37533725 PMCID: PMC10393260 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1193866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2023] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023] Open
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Introduction Stereotypes have traditionally been considered as "mental pictures" of a particular social group. The current research aims to draw the structure of gender stereotypes and metastereotype schemes as complex systems of stereotypical features. Therefore, we analyze gender stereotypes as networks of interconnected characteristics. Method Through an online survey (N = 750), participants listed the common female and male features to build the structure of the gender stereotypes. Participants also listed the common features of how members of one gender think they are viewed by people of the other gender to build the structure of gender metastereotypes. Results Our results suggest that female stereotypes are characterized by a single community of features consistently associated such as intelligent, strong, and hardworkers. Female metastereotype, however, combines the previous community with another characterized by weak and sensitive. On the contrary, the male stereotype projected by women is characterized by a community of features associated such as intelligent, strong, and hardworker, but male in-group stereotypes and metastereotypes projected by men are a combination of this community with another one characterized by features associated such as strong, chauvinist, and aggressive. Discussion A network approach to studying stereotypes provided insights into the meaning of certain traits when considered in combination with different traits. (e.g., strong-intelligent vs. strong-aggressive). Thus, focusing on central nodes can be critical to understanding and changing the structure of gender stereotypes.
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- Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain
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Moreno-Bella E, Kulich C, Willis GB, Moya M. Wage (in)equality matters: the effect of organizational economic inequality on others' and self-ascriptions. J Soc Psychol 2023:1-19. [PMID: 37094182 DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2023.2192398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2023]
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Economic inequality has consequences at the social-psychological level, such as in the way people make inferences about their environment and other people. In the present two preregistered studies, we used a paradigm of an organizational setting to manipulate economic inequality and measured ascriptions of agentic versus communal traits to employees and the self. In Study 1 (N = 187), participants attributed more agency than communion to a middle-status employee, and more communion than agency when economic equality was salient. In Study 2 (N = 198) this finding was replicated. Further, this inequality-agency association was explained by perceptions of competitive employee relationships. Results, moreover, suggested that participants mainly attributed more communion than agency to themselves in the equality condition. We conclude that agency and communion ascriptions may be functional and thus inform about the expectations people have on the nature of social relationships in the face of economic inequality.
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Kosakowska-Berezecka N, Bosson JK, Jurek P, Besta T, Olech M, Vandello JA, Bender M, Dandy J, Hoorens V, Jasinskaja-Lahti I, Mankowski E, Venäläinen S, Abuhamdeh S, Agyemang CB, Akbaş G, Albayrak-Aydemir N, Ammirati S, Anderson J, Anjum G, Ariyanto A, Aruta JJBR, Ashraf M, Bakaitytė A, Becker M, Bertolli C, Bërxulli D, Best DL, Bi C, Block K, Boehnke M, Bongiorno R, Bosak J, Casini A, Chen Q, Chi P, Cubela Adoric V, Daalmans S, de Lemus S, Dhakal S, Dvorianchikov N, Egami S, Etchezahar E, Esteves CS, Froehlich L, Garcia-Sanchez E, Gavreliuc A, Gavreliuc D, Gomez Á, Guizzo F, Graf S, Greijdanus H, Grigoryan A, Grzymała-Moszczyńska J, Guerch K, Gustafsson Sendén M, Hale ML, Hämer H, Hirai M, Hoang Duc L, Hřebíčková M, Hutchings PB, Jensen DH, Karabati S, Kelmendi K, Kengyel G, Khachatryan N, Ghazzawi R, Kinahan M, Kirby TA, Kovacs M, Kozlowski D, Krivoshchekov V, Kryś K, Kulich C, Kurosawa T, Lac An NT, Labarthe-Carrara J, Lauri MA, Latu I, Lawal AM, Li J, Lindner J, Lindqvist A, Maitner AT, Makarova E, Makashvili A, Malayeri S, Malik S, Mancini T, Manzi C, Mari S, Martiny SE, Mayer CH, Mihić V, MiloševićĐorđević J, Moreno-Bella E, Moscatelli S, Moynihan AB, Muller D, Narhetali E, Neto F, Noels KA, Nyúl B, O’Connor EC, Ochoa DP, Ohno S, Olanrewaju Adebayo S, Osborne R, Pacilli MG, Palacio J, Patnaik S, Pavlopoulos V, de León PP, Piterová I, Porto JB, Puzio A, Pyrkosz-Pacyna J, Rentería Pérez E, Renström E, Rousseaux T, Ryan MK, Safdar S, Sainz M, Salvati M, Samekin A, Schindler S, Sevincer AT, Seydi M, Shepherd D, Sherbaji S, Schmader T, Simão C, Sobhie R, Sobiecki J, De Souza L, Sarter E, Sulejmanović D, Sullivan KE, Tatsumi M, Tavitian-Elmadjian L, Thakur SJ, Thi Mong Chi Q, Torre B, Torres A, Torres CV, Türkoğlu B, Ungaretti J, Valshtein T, Van Laar C, van der Noll J, Vasiutynskyi V, Vauclair CM, Vohra N, Walentynowicz M, Ward C, Włodarczyk A, Yang Y, Yzerbyt V, Zanello V, Zapata-Calvente AL, Zawisza M, Žukauskienė R, Żadkowska M. Gendered Self-Views Across 62 Countries: A Test of Competing Models. Social Psychological and Personality Science 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/19485506221129687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Social role theory posits that binary gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in less egalitarian countries, reflecting these countries’ more pronounced sex-based power divisions. Conversely, evolutionary and self-construal theorists suggest that gender gaps in agency and communion should be larger in more egalitarian countries, reflecting the greater autonomy support and flexible self-construction processes present in these countries. Using data from 62 countries ( N = 28,640), we examine binary gender gaps in agentic and communal self-views as a function of country-level objective gender equality (the Global Gender Gap Index) and subjective distributions of social power (the Power Distance Index). Findings show that in more egalitarian countries, gender gaps in agency are smaller and gender gaps in communality are larger. These patterns are driven primarily by cross-country differences in men’s self-views and by the Power Distance Index (PDI) more robustly than the Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI). We consider possible causes and implications of these findings.
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- Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia
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- London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
- The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Université Catholique de Louvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Portugal
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- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain
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- Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco
- Centre Régional des Mètiers de l’Education et de la Formation de l’Oriental, Oujda, Morocco
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- Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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- University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China
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- Universidad del Norte, Colombia, Barranquilla, Colombia
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- University of Groningen, The Netherlands
- The Australian National University, Australia
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- School of Liberal Arts, M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University, Astana, Kazakhstan
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- American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- University College London, UK
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- The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Portugal
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- South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
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- University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
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- Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
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- Université Catholique de Louvain, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Moreno-Bella E, Kulich C, Willis GB, Moya M. What about diversity? The effect of organizational economic inequality on the perceived presence of women and ethnic minority groups. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0271356. [PMID: 35976867 PMCID: PMC9384987 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Economic inequality shapes the degree to which people and different social groups are perceived in stereotypical ways. Our research sought to investigate the impact of the perception of economic inequality in an organizational setting on expectations of social diversity in the organization’s workforce, across the dimensions of gender and ethnicity. Combining data from previous experiments, we first explored in one set of studies (Studies 1a and 1b; N = 378) whether the degree of economic inequality in a fictitious organization affected participants’ expectations of the representation of minority vs. majority group employees. We found that when we presented an organization with unequal (vs. equal) distribution of economic wealth amongst its employees to study participants, they expected the presence of men and White majority individuals to be larger than the presence of women and ethnic minorities. Second, we tested our hypotheses and replicated these initial effects in a pre-registered study (Study 2: N = 449). Moreover, we explored the potential mediating role of perceived diversity climate, that is, the perception that the organization promotes and deals well with demographic diversity. Findings revealed that an organizational setting that distributed resources unequally (vs. equally) was associated with a more adverse diversity climate, which, in turn, correlated with expectations of a lower presence of minority group employees in the organization. We concluded that economic inequality creates a context that modulates perceptions of a climate of social exclusion which likely affects the possibilities for members of disadvantaged groups to participate and develop in organizations.
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- Eva Moreno-Bella
- Department of Psychology, University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
- Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre (CIMCYC), University of Granada, Granada, Spain
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Moreno-Bella E, Willis GB, Quiroga-Garza A, Moya M. Economic inequality shapes the agency–communion content of gender stereotypes. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 2022. [DOI: 10.1177/13684302221095338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Economic inequality is a main issue in current societies, and it affects people’s psychological processes. In this research, we propose that perceived economic inequality might affect how people perceive men and women. In two experiments carried out in Spain ( N = 170) and Mexico ( N = 215), we tested whether high (vs. low) economic inequality leads to changes in the perceived agency and communion of both men and women. Our findings suggest that when economic inequality is high (vs. low), the communal content in social perceptions of both men and women decreases. Specifically, under high (vs. low) inequality, the difference in agency and communion ascribed to a man becomes greater (i.e., men are perceived as even more agentic than communal), whereas this difference becomes smaller for women (i.e., women are still perceived as more communal than agentic, but this difference is smaller). We discuss these findings’ implications regarding the psychosocial effects of economic inequality.
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Bosson JK, Jurek P, Vandello JA, Kosakowska-Berezecka N, Olech M, Besta T, Bender M, Hoorens V, Becker M, Timur Sevincer A, Best DL, Safdar S, Włodarczyk A, Zawisza M, Żadkowska M, Abuhamdeh S, Badu Agyemang C, Akbaş G, Albayrak-Aydemir N, Ammirati S, Anderson J, Anjum G, Ariyanto A, Jamir Benzon R. Aruta J, Ashraf M, Bakaitytė A, Bertolli C, Bërxulli D, Bi C, Block K, Boehnke M, Bongiorno R, Bosak J, Casini A, Chen Q, Chi P, Cubela Adoric V, Daalmans S, Dandy J, Lemus SD, Dhakal S, Dvorianchikov N, Egami S, Etchezahar E, Sofia Esteves C, Felix N, Froehlich L, Garcia-Sanchez E, Gavreliuc A, Gavreliuc D, Gomez Á, Guizzo F, Graf S, Greijdanus H, Grigoryan A, Grzymała-Moszczyńska J, Guerch K, Gustafsson Sendén M, Hale ML, Hämer H, Hirai M, Hoang Duc L, Hřebíčková M, Hutchings PB, Høj Jensen D, Jasinskaja-Lahti I, Karabati S, Kelmendi K, Kengyel G, Khachatryan N, Ghazzawi R, Kinahan M, Kirby TA, Kovács M, Kozlowski D, Krivoshchekov V, Kulich C, Kurosawa T, Thi Lac An N, Labarthe J, Latu I, Anne Lauri M, Mankowski E, Musbau Lawal A, Li J, Lindner J, Lindqvist A, Maitner AT, Makarova E, Makashvili A, Malayeri S, Malik S, Mancini T, Manzi C, Mari S, Martiny SE, Mayer CH, Mihić V, Milošević Đorđević J, Moreno-Bella E, Moscatelli S, Bryan Moynihan A, Muller D, Narhetali E, Neto F, Noels KA, Nyúl B, O’Connor EC, Ochoa DP, Ohno S, Olanrewaju Adebayo S, Osborne R, Giuseppina Pacilli M, Palacio J, Patnaik S, Pavlopoulos V, Pérez de León P, Piterová I, Barreiros Porto J, Puzio A, Pyrkosz-Pacyna J, Rentería Pérez E, Renström E, Rousseaux T, Ryan MK, Sainz M, Salvati M, Samekin A, Schindler S, Seydi M, Shepherd D, Sherbaji S, Schmader T, Simão C, Sobhie R, Souza LD, Sarter E, Sulejmanović D, Sullivan KE, Tatsumi M, Tavitian-Elmadjian L, Jain Thakur S, Thi Mong Chi Q, Torre B, Torres A, Torres CV, Türkoğlu B, Ungaretti J, Valshtein T, Van Laar C, van der Noll J, Vasiutynskyi V, Vauclair CM, Venäläinen S, Vohra N, Walentynowicz M, Ward C, Yang Y, Yzerbyt V, Zanello V, Ludmila Zapata-Calvente A, Žukauskienė R. Psychometric Properties and Correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 Nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/0022022121997997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies and with country-level indices of gender equality and human development. Using data from university samples in 62 countries across 13 world regions ( N = 33,417), we demonstrate: (1) the psychometric isomorphism of the PMB (i.e., its comparability in meaning and statistical properties across the individual and country levels); (2) the PMB’s distinctness from, and associations with, ambivalent sexism and ambivalence toward men; and (3) associations of the PMB with nation-level gender equality and human development. Findings are discussed in terms of their statistical and theoretical implications for understanding widely-held beliefs about the precariousness of the male gender role.
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- Tilburg University, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- Gratia Christian College, Hong Kong
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- Australian Catholic University, Australia
- La Trobe University, Australia
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- Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan
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- Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
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- CRMEF (Centre Régional des métiers de l’Education et de la Formation) Oujda, Morocco
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- Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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- Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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- Sichuan Normal University, China
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- International Islamic Academy of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan
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- American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, Portugal
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Moreno-Bella E, Willis GB, Moya M. Economic Inequality and Masculinity-Femininity: The Prevailing Perceived Traits in Higher Unequal Contexts Are Masculine. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1590. [PMID: 31428004 PMCID: PMC6688552 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Previous studies have shown that economic inequality influences psychological processes. In this article, we argue that economic inequality also makes masculine attributes more prototypical. In Study 1 (N = 106), using an experimental design, we showed that individuals belonging to a society characterized by a higher level of economic inequality are perceived as more masculine than feminine. Study 2 (N = 75) shows, also experimentally, that the upper social class is perceived mostly in terms of masculine traits, and that this effect is greater when economic inequality is relatively high. Conversely, the lower social class is more clearly perceived in terms of feminine traits. These results inform our understanding of the impact of economic inequality on social perception.
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