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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 3, 363-366 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727900500319
© 1979 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Competence and Incompetence: Assymetric Responses to Women and Men on a Sex-Linked Task

Deborah Larrancel

Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Deborah Larrancel

Sharon Pavelich

Peter Storer

Michael Polizzi

Beth Baron

Suzanne Sloan

Robert Jordan

Harry T. Reis

Sharon Pavelich

Peter Storer

Michael Polizzi

Beth Baron

Suzanne Sloan

Robert Jordan

University of Rochester

Harry T. Reis

Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Recent research has demonstrated that successful performance on a masculine task will be judged more deservingly if the actor is a woman than a man. This contradicts other studies showing penalties for out-of-sex-role behavior by either sex. The present experiment examined these propositions using a task with obvious social desirability. Females and males presented themselves as either competent or incompetent about automobiles to a used-car dealer. Results indicated that whereas incompetent females were not penalized for incompetence, the incompetent males were. Sexstereotyped expectations of competence at sex-appropriate activities may therefore have negative ramifications, as expectations of incompetence do.


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