Women can't jump?-An experiment on competitive attitudes and stereotype threat

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 395-401

  Günther, Christina ^a   Ekinci, Neslihan Arslan ^b   Schwieren, Christiane ^c   Strobel, Martin ^d  

^a MPI of Economics   (Germany)

^b (R)evolution GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Gender differences; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955267667     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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