Expressing pride: Effects on perceived agency, communality, and stereotype-based gender disparities.
Two experimental studies were conducted to investigate how the expression of pride shapes agency-related and communality-related judgments, and how those judgments differ when the pride expresser is a man or a woman. Results indicated that the expression of pride (as compared to the expression of happiness) had positive effects on perceptions of agency and inferences about task-oriented leadership competence, and negative effects on perceptions of communality and inferences about people-oriented leadership competence. Pride expression also elevated ascriptions of interpersonal hostility. For agency-related judgments and ascriptions of interpersonal hostility, these effects were consistently stronger when the pride expresser was a woman than a man. Moreover, the expression of pride was found to affect disparities in judgments about men and women, eliminating the stereotype-consistent differences that were evident when happiness was expressed. With a display of pride women were not seen as any more deficient in agency-related attributes and competencies, nor were they seen as any more exceptional in communality-related attributes and competencies, than were men. (PsycINFO Database Record
TUM School of Management.
Prisca
0000-0001-6012-5815
P
Brosi
University Seeburg Castle.
Matthias
M
Spörrle
TUM School of Management.
Isabell M
IM
Welpe
Department of Psychology, New York University.
Madeline E
ME
Heilman
D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D011361:Professional Competence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D055815:Young Adult