political attitudes &
decisions
These
projects examine how gender influences political beliefs, attitudes, and
decisions.
Relevant papers and presentations
Diekman, A. B., Eagly, A. H.,
& Kulesa, P. (2002). Accuracy and bias in stereotypes about the social
and political attitudes of women and men. Journal of Experimental Social
Psychology, 38, 268-282.
Diekman, A. B., &
Schneider, M. C. (in press). A social role theory perspective on gender gaps
in political attitudes. Psychology of
Women Quarterly.
Eagly, A. H., & Diekman, A.
B. (2006). Examining the gap in political attitudes: It's not Mars and Venus. Feminism
& Psychology, 16, 26-34.
Eagly, A.
H., Diekman, A. B., Johannesen-Schmidt, M. C., & Koenig, A. G. (2004). Gender gaps in sociopolitical
attitudes: A social psychological analysis. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 87, 796-816.
Eagly, A.
H., Diekman, A. B., Schneider, M. C., & Kulesa, P. (2003). Experimental
tests of an attitudinal theory of the gender gap in voting. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1245-1258.
Current project
Influence of
threat on leadership decisions This project examines how people's voting preferences for
leaders change depending on their current emotional state. Specifically, we
are looking at the intersection of threat and gender roles on voting
behaviors and what one feels that they need from a leader. In two studies, we
have found that the traditional preference for male political candidates
reverses under threat - that is, threatened participants are more likely to
vote for and support a female than a male leader. Current work is focusing on
the motivations underlying these effects.
Brown, E. R., Diekman, A. B.,
& Schneider, M.C. (2009). The
effects of system threat on candidate evaluations:Differential consequences
for male versus female candidates. Manuscript under review.