PSY 103 Lecture 11: Study Soup (Psy ch.11)
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Gender and behavior personality traits, and social behavior. instrumentality , orientation toward emotion and relationships. For the sake of simplicity, we"ll use . Gender stereotypes are widely shared beliefs about males" and females" abilities, Note that the stereotyped attributes for males generally reflect the quality of. Whereas the stereotypes for females reflect the quality of . Androcentrism , or the belief that the male is the norm. Thankfully, a statistical technique called meta-analysis helps clarify this body of research. Meta-analysis combines the statistical results of many studies of the same question, yielding an estimate of the size and consistency of a variable"s effects. Based on the results of over forty-six meta-analyses, janet shibley hyde, a noted authority in the field, proposed the . Hyde notes that men and women are similar on most psychological variables and that most of the time when researchers report a difference, it is quite small.
