EVALUATIVE BIAS AND SELF-ENHANCEMENT AMONG GENDER GROUPS

Authors
LINDEMAN M SUNDVIK L
Citation
M. Lindeman et L. Sundvik, EVALUATIVE BIAS AND SELF-ENHANCEMENT AMONG GENDER GROUPS, European journal of social psychology, 25(3), 1995, pp. 269-280
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Social
Journal title
European journal of social psychology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00462772
Volume
25
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
269 - 280
Database
ISI
SICI code
0046-2772(1995)25:3<269:EBASAG>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
One hundred and one middle managers (66 men, 35 women) evaluated thems elves, ingroup (same sex) members and outgroup (opposite sex) members on both stereotypical and on contextual masculine and feminine dimensi ons. The results showed that men favoured ingroup members on the mascu line dimensions and women favoured ingroup members on the feminine dim ensions. 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 mode l.