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Implicit Attitudes

Jul 03, 2007 09:50

Rudman and Goodwin (2004) report that women show greater "in-group bias" than men; that is, women like women more than men like men. Rudman and Goodwin's four experiments used implicit association testing (IAT) to assess favorable attitudes towards a particular gender group. Harvard's Project Implicit gives a deeper explanation of IAT and allows ( Read more... )

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astrogeek01 July 3 2007, 13:59:41 UTC

There seems to be a fair amount of anecdotal belief in the hard sciences that women are harder on other women than men are. I'm trying to remember if there is actual evidence to that beyond self-reporting, but alas, I can't recall. I suspect there isn't. I'd be curious to see if there was a way to sift that out.

differenceblog July 3 2007, 14:13:19 UTC

I hadn't thought of it in that context, but you're right that it's related to Rudman and Goodwin. We looked at that in Same-sex Harassment (4/19/2007), which addresses the possibility that women are harder on other women because they expect more from them.