APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

What Kind of Superhero Are You? the Effect of Gender on Experience-Taking

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Social

  • 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

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