In this paper, we explore third parties who unexpectedly fell within the legal definition of a sex trafficker. The anti-trafficking lobby and media stories frequently portray traffickers as organised, psychopathic, violent, child kidnappers. We dismantle these depictions by showing unexpected people qualify traffickers. This paper incorporates findings from two studies involving eighty-five in ...

Being in the numerical minority can impair intellectual performance. We suggest, however, that these negative eVects need not extend to everyone because some people—speciWcally high self-monitors—can overcome the eVects of situationally activated stereotypes. In two studies, we manipulated the race/sex composition of small groups and assessed intellectual performance. Results revealed that: (a)...

The present study investigated perceptions of men and women in the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets. For both stereotypes and evaluations of individual cadets enrolled in the training program, men more than women were believed to possess the motivation and leadership qualities necessary for effective military performance, whereas women were believed to possess more feminine attributes that impair effe...

This article presents a four-category framework to characterize the contents of prescriptive gender stereotypes. The framework distinguishes between prescriptions and proscriptions that are intensified by virtue of one’s gender, and those that are relaxed by virtue of one’s gender. Two studies examined the utility of this framework for characterizing prescriptive gender stereotypes in American ...

Despite legislative attempts to eliminate gender stereotyping from society, the propensity to evaluate people on the basis of their sex remains a pernicious social problem. Noting the critical interplay between cultural and cognitive factors in the establishment of stereotypical beliefs, the current investigation explored the extent to which culturally transmitted colour-gender associations (i....

Selim Jürgen Ergun, Teresa García-Muñoz, M. Fernanda Rivas METU NCC Economics Program and GLOBE Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa and GLOBE Universidad de Granada ABSTRACT This paper reviews the experimental economics literature on gender differences concerning four subjects: risk aversion, trust, deception and leadership. The vast majority of the articles we h...

Autism has become a ‘biomedical platform’ for sex differences research in fields such as genetics, endocrinology and neuroscience. Increasingly, researchers in these fields pose the male prevalence of autism as a model for investigating sex differences in the brain, and offer basic research on sex differences in the brain as a resource for understanding the etiology of autism. The use of autism...

Citizens are required to understand an increasingly datafied reality perform sensible decision making and be active participants in society. However, our ability grasp that complexity, especially when it involves data the form of numbers, is affected by limiting factors such as mathematics anxiety. In case women, how they face reading content based on or numbers affects their daily lives, inclu...