Motivated to penalize: Women's strategic rejection of successful women

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 237-247

  Parks Stamm, Elizabeth J ^a   Heilman, Madeline E ^a   Hearns, Krystle A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backlash effects; Motivated reasoning; Norm violation; Penalties for success; Prescriptive gender stereotypes; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAREER MOBILITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MOTIVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ACHIEVEMENT; ATTITUDE; CAREER MOBILITY; FEMALE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEW YORK CITY; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 38349060999     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207310027     Document Type: Article

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