PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Negative Feedback
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By the end of today"s class you should be able to: review research regarding sex differences in responsiveness to evaluative feedback. Achievement: both sexes fear success in gender atypical domains. Are there sex differences in responsiveness to evaluative feedback: a number of studies suggest that females are more responsive to evaluative feedback than males, females are more responsive to evaluative feedback. The self conception is more impacted by others feedback than males: females self evaluation are more effected by feedback, roberts and nolen: study 1: asked participants to complete challenging cognitive tasks. After completion of half of the tasks, participants received positive or negative feedback. Before feedback asked participants to evaluate their expected performance. **in another study the participants were evaluated by peers (confederates) and not a superordinate and found that men do not have the same self satisfaction in that men"s self satisfaction decreased.
