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Evaluative bias and self‐enhancement among gender groups
Author(s) -
Lindeman Marjaana,
Sundvik Lilli
Publication year - 1995
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.2420250303
Subject(s) - ingroups and outgroups , categorization , psychology , outgroup , social identity theory , social psychology , identity (music) , in group favoritism , social group , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy , physics , acoustics
One hundred and one middle managers (66 men, 35 women) evaluated themselves, ingroup (same sex) members and outgroup (opposite sex) members on both stereotypical and on contextual masculine and feminine dimensions. The results showed that men favoured ingroup members on the masculine dimensions and women favoured ingroup members on the feminine dimensions. In addition, both sexes favoured themselves over ingroup and outgroup. The results are discussed in terms of social identity theory, self‐categorization theory and egocentric social categorization model.