Cognitive equal opportunities: How the mere presentation of renowned female and male leaders affects our implicit thinking on leadership;Kognitive gleichstellung: Wie die bloße abbildung bekannter weiblicher und männlicher führungskräfte unser implizites denken zu führung beeinflusst

Zeitschrift fur Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 91-104

  Van Quaquebeke, Niels ^a   Schmerling, Anja ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Implicit Association Test (IAT); Implicit Leadership Theories (ILT); Leader categorization; Leader prototype; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954672997     PISSN: 09324089     EISSN: 21906270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1026/0932-4089/a000020     Document Type: Article

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