Sometimes Nothing Succeeds Like Success: Reactions to Success and Failure in Sex-Linked Occupations.

Garland, Howard

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ERIC Number: EJ165597

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Publication Date: 1977

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Sometimes Nothing Succeeds Like Success: Reactions to Success and Failure in Sex-Linked Occupations

Garland, Howard

Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2, 1, 50-61, F 77

Males and females read descriptions of a male or female worker who succeeded or failed as a manager or secretary. Subjects responded with impressions of the worker, causal attributions for his/her success or failure, and evaluations of the likelihood of a number of positive and negative consequences for the worker. (Author)

Descriptors: College Students, Failure, Office Occupations, Research Projects, Role Perception, Sex Differences, Sex Stereotypes, Success

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