Stereotype Threat and the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge

Autor/inn/en	McGlone, Matthew S.; Aronson, Joshua; Kobrynowicz, Diane
Titel	Stereotype Threat and the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30 (2006) 4, S.392-398 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2006.00314.x
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Telephone Surveys; College Students; Interviews; Scores; Politics; Investigations; Sex Stereotypes; Responses; Test Items; Knowledge Level; Gender Issues; Test Bias; Social Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Collegestudent; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Politik; Untersuchung; Test content; Testaufgabe; Wissensbasis; Geschlechterfrage; Testkritik
Abstract	Men tend to achieve higher response accuracy than women on surveys of political knowledge. We investigated the possibility that this performance gap is moderated by factors that render the communicative context of a survey intellectually threatening to women and thereby induce stereotype threat. In a telephone survey of college students' political knowledge, we manipulated two factors of the survey context: the alleged diagnosticity of the question set (i.e., whether it was portrayed as being sensitive to potential gender differences) and the gender of the interviewer. Consistent with previous studies of political knowledge, men scored higher than women overall. However, as predicted, this difference was reliably moderated by the manipulated factors. Women's scores were not reliably different from men's when the survey was portrayed as nondiagnostic and when women were interviewed by female interviewers. Diagnosticity and interviewer gender had no effects on men's scores. Consistent with previous research on stereotype threat, these results suggest that explicit and implicit cues reminding women of the possibility that they might confirm a negative gender stereotype can impair their retrieval of political knowledge. (Author).
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