Preferential treatment of women and psychological reactance theory: An experiment
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| Publication date | 1992 |
| Journal | European Journal of Social Psychology |
| Volume | Issue number | 22 | 3 |
| Pages (from-to) | 303-307 |
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| Abstract | 187 male academic staff members read a low- or high-threat (freedom restricting) description of measures for the preferential treatment of women in job selection for academic staff functions. The high-threat condition evoked more psychological reactance than the low-threat condition. Ss with high self-esteem manifested a more negative attitude in the high-threat than in the low-threat condition. The expectation that lecturers would manifest more resistance than professors to preferential treatment of women was not supported. |
| Document type | Article |
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https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2420220308
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