Masculine = competent? Physical appearance and sex as sources of gender-stereotypic attributions

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-23

  Sczesny, Sabine ^a   Spreemann, Sandra ^b   Stahlberg, Dagmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gender stereotypes; Judgment; Leadership; Physical appearance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645761955     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.65.1.15     Document Type: Article

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