{
  "creator": [
    "Dhesi, Japinder"
  ],
  "date": [
    "2011-05-30"
  ],
  "description": [
    "The present study considered the impact of gender essentialism on sex differences in subject choice. Secondary school children, aged 11-12 years (N = 30) and 15-16 years (N = 26), were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions, and completed a thought experiment requiring them to make inferences about two gendered attributes; academic subject ability and gender-stereotyped properties, of a hypothetical male and female; (a) raised in an opposite sex environment; (b) following a brain transplant from a member of the opposite sex and (c) a 'normal' male or female, acting as a baseline response. Results from the experiment indicated that children do hold essentialist beliefs about gender. However, such beliefs vary as a function of both the age of participants, and the gendered attribute considered. We conclude that gender essentialism may account for the persistence of sex differences in subject choice."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/129",
    "10.5964/ejop.v7i2.129"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/129/129.pdf"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Europe’s Journal of Psychology; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2011); 261-278",
    "1841-0413"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "gender",
    "essentialism",
    "academic ability",
    "subject choice"
  ],
  "title": [
    "What’s stopping you? The contribution of gender essentialism to sex differences in subject choice"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}