Gender Bias
- Created by: SluggyK
- Created on: 10-11-16 19:28
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- Gender Bias
- Universality and bias
- Bias is inevitable
- Psychologists possess beliefs/values influenced by social/historical context
- Universality is impossible - it can't be applied to everyone
- Alpha Bias
- Differences presented as fixed/ inevitable
- Exaggerates differences between genders
- Likely to devalue females
- Sexual promiscuity in males = genetically determined, in women = going against nature
- Wilson's socio-biological theory of relationship formation through survival efficiency
- Male wants to impregnate as many women as possible to increase chances of genes being passed on
- Female wants to abstain and preserve genes to ensure survival of offspring
- Beta Bias
- Minimises differences between genders
- E.G. Not having female participants in research but assuming results apply to both genders
- Kohlberg's theory of moral development only used American men but deemed results to be universal
- Fight/Flight research based on male animals - female hormones fluctuate - deemed universal
- Taylor found female body evolved to fight/flight, shifted attention to protecting offspring/ forming networks with other females
- Androcentrism
- Brescoll/ Uhlman found male anger was often seen as a rational response to external pressure
- Consequence of beta bias
- Sees normal behaviour as males, deviation = abnormal so female behaviour is misunderstood/pathologised
- Females object to PMS as being a stereotype/ social construction which medicalises female emotions (anger)
- Universality and bias
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