Gender Bias
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- Created on: 13-09-17 11:40
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- Gender Bias
- Beta Bias - Ignore/ minimise differences and suggest that one rule applies to both genders.
- Universality - The aim to develop theories that apply to all people, which may include age, gender and race.
- Androcentrism - focused on men and excludes women
- Alpha Bias - exaggerate differences between men and women and women are normally devalued.
- Reverse Alpha bias
- Shows the differences between men and women, but emphasises the value of women.
- Feminist psychology
- Views women as normal humans, not ‘deficient men’
- Research agenda focusing on womens’ concerns
- A psychology for women, rather than a psychology of women
- Reverse Beta bias
- Minimising differences between genders can have positive consequences
- However, can draw attention away from needs specific to women
- Bias in RM
- standardised
procedures
- Women and men might respond differently to research situations
- Women and men might be treated differently by researchers
- Could create artificial differences or mask real ones
- Dissemination of research results
- Publishing positive results
- Research with gender differences more likely to be published
- Exaggerates gender differences
- Institutional sexism
- Men predominate at senior researcher level
- Research follows male concerns, female concerns may be ignored
- standardised
procedures
- Challenging asumptions
- Many theories (theory of sexual selection) have gone unchallenged for a great deal of time.
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