Flattering to deceive: Why people misunderstand benevolent sexism.

SeX-Box: Exposure to Sexist Video Games Predicts Benevolent Sexism

We examined the association between playing sexist video games and sexist attitudes. Undergraduate students (61 men and 114 women) indicated the level of perceived sexism present in their most frequently played video games. Students also completed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), which measures both hostile and benevolent sexism. As predicted, men who played video games pe...

The “True” Romantic: Benevolent Sexism and Paternalistic Chivalry

Insidious dangers of benevolent sexism: consequences for women's performance.

Four experiments found benevolent sexism to be worse than hostile sexism for women's cognitive performance. Experiments 1-2 showed effects of paternalist benevolent sexism and ruled out explanations of perceived sexism, context pleasantness, and performance motivation. Experiment 3 showed effects of both paternalist and complementary gender differentiation components of benevolent sexism. Benev...

The maintenance is the implementation OR Why people misunderstand IT systems

This short paper has been written more as a position paper intended to stimulate discussion than as a research or experience description paper. 1. The traditional scenario of mechanization Since the 18th century humankind has reassigned to machines jobs previously performed by human beings and animals, and this process is well understood. Assume you have to harvest a huge field or to assemble t...

People avoid situations that enable them to deceive others