Preferential treatment of women and psychological reactance theory: An experiment
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| Publication date |
1992
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| Journal |
European Journal of Social Psychology
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| Volume | Issue number |
22 | 3
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| Pages (from-to) |
303-307
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
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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.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2420220308
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