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ERIC Number: EJ837292
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Jun
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-6843
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A Meta-Analysis on the Malleability of Automatic Gender Stereotypes
Lenton, Alison P.; Bruder, Martin; Sedikides, Constantine
Psychology of Women Quarterly, v33 n2 p183-196 Jun 2009
This meta-analytic review examined the efficacy of interventions aimed at reducing automatic gender stereotypes. Such interventions included attentional distraction, salience of within-category heterogeneity, and stereotype suppression. A small but significant main effect (g = 0.32) suggests that these interventions are successful but that their scope is limited. The intervention main effect was moderated by publication status, sample nationality, and intervention type. The meta-analytic findings suggest several issues worthy of further investigation, such as whether (a) other categories of intervention not yet identified or tested could be more effective, (b) suppression necessarily produces ironic effects in automatic stereotyping, (c) various indirect measures are differentially sensitive to stereotype change, and (d) automatic stereotypes about men differ in their malleability from those about women.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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