APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
What Kind of Superhero Are You? the Effect of Gender on Experience-Taking
- Veronica Stocker
Baruch College, The City University of New York - Natalie Cruz
Baruch College - Judith Konamah
Baruch College - Shannon Pinegar
Baruch College, City University of New York
Abstract
We designed three studies examining the effect of participant gender on experience-taking tendencies with opposite gender narrative characters. Our third study used two popular equivalent superheroes Captain America and Wonder Woman. We found a partial effect of gender on experience-taking with respect to marked differences in demonstrated desirability bias.
Gender Issues/Sex Roles