TY - JOUR
T1 - You're making us all look bad
T2 - Sexism moderates women's experience of collective threat and intra-gender hostility toward traditional and non-traditional female subtypes
AU - Lizzio-Wilson, Morgana
AU - Masser, Barbara M.
AU - Hornsey, Matthew J.
AU - Iyer, Aarti
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Across two studies (Ns = 265 and 735), we investigated whether women’s endorsement of hostile (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS) moderates their experience of collective threat and subsequent hostility toward traditional and non-traditional female subtypes. As expected, HS was positively associated with intra-gender hostility toward the non-traditional subtype, and these effects were mediated by collective threat. HS was negatively associated with collective threat and hostility toward the traditional subtype, but only when the target endorsed prescriptive gender beliefs that explicitly reinforced gender inequality. BS was associated with collective threat and hostility toward the non-traditional subtype, but these effects did not emerge consistently across both studies. These results suggest that women are not a homogeneous group whose members all find the same subtypes collectively threatening. Rather, the extent to which women internalize patriarchal attitudes and stereotypes influences the behaviors they find threatening and deserving of hostility.
AB - Across two studies (Ns = 265 and 735), we investigated whether women’s endorsement of hostile (HS) and benevolent sexism (BS) moderates their experience of collective threat and subsequent hostility toward traditional and non-traditional female subtypes. As expected, HS was positively associated with intra-gender hostility toward the non-traditional subtype, and these effects were mediated by collective threat. HS was negatively associated with collective threat and hostility toward the traditional subtype, but only when the target endorsed prescriptive gender beliefs that explicitly reinforced gender inequality. BS was associated with collective threat and hostility toward the non-traditional subtype, but these effects did not emerge consistently across both studies. These results suggest that women are not a homogeneous group whose members all find the same subtypes collectively threatening. Rather, the extent to which women internalize patriarchal attitudes and stereotypes influences the behaviors they find threatening and deserving of hostility.
KW - benevolent sexism
KW - collective threat
KW - hostile sexism
KW - intra-gender hostility
KW - subtyping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085508577&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1368430220913610
DO - 10.1177/1368430220913610
M3 - Article
SN - 1368-4302
VL - 24
SP - 1486
EP - 1514
JO - Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
JF - Group Processes and Intergroup Relations
IS - 8
ER -