Benevolent sexism alters executive brain responses

NeuroReport

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 572-577

  Dardenne, Benoit ^a   Dumont, Muriel ^a   Sarlet, Marie ^a   Phillips, Christophe ^a   Balteau, Evelyne ^a   Degueldre, Christian ^a   Luxen, André ^a   Salmon, Eric ^a   Maquet, Pierre ^a   Collette, Fabienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

brain imaging; functional MRI; sexism; thought suppression; working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SEXISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

BRAIN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEXISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879936039     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283625b5b     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Dardenne B, Dumont M, Bollier T. Insidious dangers of benevolent sexism: consequences for women's performance. J Pers Soc Psychol 2007; 93:764-779.
2. Sarlet M, Dumont M, Delacollette N, Dardenne B. Prescription of protective paternalism for men in romantic and work contexts. Psychol Women Q 2012; 36:444-457.
3. Dumont M, Sarlet M, Dardenne B. Be too kind to a woman, she'll feel incompetent: benevolent sexism shifts self-construal and autobiographical memories toward incompetence. Sex Roles 2010; 62:545-553.
4. Wyland CL, Kelley WM, Macrae CN, Gordon HL, Heatherton TF. Neural correlates of thought suppression. Neuropsychologia 2003; 4:1863-1867.
5. Mitchell JP, Heatherton TF, Kelley WM, Wyland CL, Wegner DM, Macrae CN. Transient and sustained cognitive control during the suppression of unwanted thoughts. Psychological Sci 2007; 18:292-296.
6. Heatherton TF. Neuroscience of self and self-regulation. Ann Rev Psychol 2011; 62:363-390.
7. Glick P, Fiske ST. The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: differentiating hostile and benevolent sexism. J Pers Soc Psychol 1996; 70:491-512.
8. Daneman M, Carpenter PA. Individual differences in working memory and reading. J Verb Learn Verb Be 1980; 19:450-466.
9. Friston KJ, Glaser DE, Henson RNA, Kiebel S, Phillips C, Ashburner J. Classical and Bayesian inference in neuroimaging: applications. NeuroImage 2002; 16:484-512.
10. Wager TD, Smith EE. Neuroimaging studies of working memory: a meta-analysis. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 2003; 3:255-274.
11. Buckner R, Andrews-Hanna J, Schacter D. The brain's default network: anatomy, function and relevance to disease. Ann NY Acad Sci 2008; 1124:1-38.