Publication details
Gender and cultural stereotypes of Czech highschool students
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | Presented study focuses on the influence of gender and cultural background on stereotypes of Czech highschool students. Portraits of four young adults (two women and two men) from three different cultural backgrounds (European, Middle-East, and African) were subjects of this exploration. A group of 110 seventeen-year-old Czech high school students were asked to describe the person in the picture: his/her character, wishes, hobbies, his/her future life, and if there is any possibility that they could become friends with the person in the picture. Qualitative analysis of these unfinished sentences revealed that women and the African man were described in terms of warmth, expressiveness and communion; at the same time, these people were perceived as less competent. The white man was characterized in terms of instrumentality, competence and agency. The description of the white man had a negative connotation more often than did the description of the other three people. |
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