Graphing the Order of the Sexes: Constructing, Recalling, Interpreting, and Putting the Self in Gender Difference Graphs

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-391

  Hegarty, Peter ^a   Lemieux, Anthony F ^b   McQueen, Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

gender differences; gender stereotypes; graphs; power; social construction of knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649113598     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018590     Document Type: Article

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