Wang Katie, Dovidio John F
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Psychol Women Q. 2017 Mar;41(1):65-76. doi: 10.1177/0361684316670628. Epub 2016 Sep 28.
Although many researchers have explored the relations among gender identification, discriminatory attributions, and intentions to challenge discrimination, few have examined the causal impact of gender identity salience on women's actual responses to a sexist encounter. In the current study, we addressed this question by experimentally manipulating the salience of gender identity and assessing its impact on women's decision to confront a sexist comment in a simulated online interaction. Female participants ( = 114) were randomly assigned to complete a short measure of either personal or collective self-esteem, which was designed to increase the salience of personal versus gender identity. They were then given the opportunity to confront a male interaction partner who expressed sexist views. Compared to those who were primed to focus on their personal identity, participants who were primed to focus on their gender identity perceived the interaction partner's remarks as more sexist and were more likely to engage in confrontation. By highlighting the powerful role of subtle contextual cues in shaping women's perceptions of, and responses to, sexism, our findings have important implications for the understanding of gender identity salience as an antecedent of prejudice confrontation. PWQ's http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index.
尽管许多研究人员探讨了性别认同、歧视性归因以及挑战歧视的意图之间的关系，但很少有人研究性别认同显著性对女性在遭遇性别歧视时实际反应的因果影响。在本研究中，我们通过实验操纵性别认同的显著性，并评估其对女性在模拟在线互动中面对性别歧视言论时做出回应的决策的影响，来解决这个问题。女性参与者（(n = 114)）被随机分配去完成一项关于个人自尊或集体自尊的简短测量，该测量旨在提高个人身份与性别身份的显著性。然后，她们有机会面对一位表达性别歧视观点的男性互动伙伴。与那些被引导关注个人身份的参与者相比，被引导关注性别身份的参与者认为互动伙伴的言论更具性别歧视性，并且更有可能进行对抗。通过强调微妙的情境线索在塑造女性对性别歧视的认知和反应方面的强大作用，我们的研究结果对于理解性别认同显著性作为偏见对抗的一个前提条件具有重要意义。PWQ's http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index.
