APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Glass Cliff: Are Men and Women Judged Differently When They Make Interpersonal Mistakes?

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Social

  • Margaret Kneuer
    Mercyhurst University
  • Melissa Heerboth
    Mercyhurst University

Abstract

Participants with strong masculine gender roles demonstrated a distinct pattern in their perceptions of female targets that made mistakes in workplace settings: females targets were judged very harshly when they made interpersonal mistakes, but were judged significantly less harshly than male targets when they made technical mistakes.

Gender Issues/Sex Roles

← Poster Session II