Be too kind to a woman, she'll feel incompetent: Benevolent sexism shifts self-construal and autobiographical memories toward incompetence

Sex Roles

Volumn 62, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages 545-553

  Dumont, Muriel ^a   Sarlet, Marie ^a,b   Dardenne, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Incompetence; Performance; Self construal; Sexism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952427296     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9582-4     Document Type: Article

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