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System‐justifying behaviors: When feeling dependent on a system triggers gender stereotype‐consistent academic performance
Author(s) -
Bonnot Virginie,
KrauthGruber Silvia
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2201
Subject(s) - feeling , psychology , system justification , social psychology , stereotype (uml) , stereotype threat , dependency (uml) , developmental psychology , computer science , ideology , politics , political science , law , software engineering
Based on system‐justification theory, we hypothesized that men and women would perform in accordance with gender stereotypes mainly when justification of the system is necessary. In this research, system‐justification motivation was triggered using a system‐dependency manipulation. Study 1 shows that when feeling highly (vs. less) dependent on the system, people endorsed system‐justifying beliefs more. In Study 2, men performed better in math than in verbal domains, while women showed the reverse pattern, but only when they felt highly dependent on the system. Similar results were obtained on performance self‐evaluation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.