{"id":208,"date":"2014-08-07T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=208"},"modified":"2015-01-27T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T12:23:04","slug":"challenging-gender-stereotypes-in-people-selecting-leaders-may-stimulate-greater-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2014\/08\/07\/challenging-gender-stereotypes-in-people-selecting-leaders-may-stimulate-greater-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenging gender stereotypes in people selecting leaders may stimulate greater fairness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research by University of Kent psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/randsleyg\/\">Dr Georgina Randsley de Moura<\/a> and psychologists from the universities of Coventry and Sheffield considered how exposure to counter-stereotypic gender role models \u2013 for instance, a female engineer \u2013 could influence the preferences of individuals choosing between different leadership candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the research were asked to form an impression of either a female mechanic (counter-stereotypic role model) or a male mechanic (stereotypic role model) and to list ten attributes that this person may have. After completing this role-model task, the participants were introduced to a leadership &#8216;candidate&#8217;. This candidate was either representative of the person&#8217;s group or deviated from the group&#8217;s norms.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the full <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/1771\/challenging-gender-stereotypes-and-leadership\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research by University of Kent psychologist Dr Georgina Randsley de Moura and psychologists from the universities of Coventry and Sheffield considered how exposure to counter-stereotypic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2014\/08\/07\/challenging-gender-stereotypes-in-people-selecting-leaders-may-stimulate-greater-fairness\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}