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differences in math ability affects women’s mathematical performance. Several implications of
this effect, as well as factors, which may play a mediating role, are discussed.
2098.121 Images and meaning in stereotyping, Marcos Pereira, Federal University of Bahia,
Brazil
This paper intends to determine whether the evaluation of a target category, through a simple
presentation of the verbal label of it, differs from another evaluation, in which is added, during its
presentation, a photograph of a typical sample of the mentioned category. A second focus of
interest tries to determine the influence of the size of city on the participant evaluation of social
distance. The results point out a remarkable difference in the evaluation of the target category
when participants were exposed to entirely abstract stimuli, compared to when photos of examples
from the target group were added.
2098.122 Stereotypes in linguistic intergroup bias in Bahia, Marcos Pereira, Joice F. Silva,
Roberta Brasileiro, Paula Bacellar, Marcelo Navarro, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
The aim of this work is to evalute the intergroup linguistic bias in partcipants from white ethnic
origin and in participants from the African ethnic origin who are living in Salvador, Brazil. The
dependable variable was related to a forced choice among four options, each of them representing
a linguistic codification with a different level of abstraction. The results, unlike those ones found
in written sources, did not show any effect determined by the participant’s ethnic condition, nor by
the character’s one, nor even by the interaction of these two variables.
2098.123 Skin colour and cultural changing in `Portugal and Brazil: A comparative study, Marcos
Pereira, Marcus Eugênio Lima Costa, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
The main purpose of this poster is to investigate, using intercultural data in a experimental design,
the effects of skin colour and cultural changing on the evalaution of social groups. The results
show significant differences of the skin colour and cultural changing on the evaluation and
representations constructed on target groups. The results also indicate effects of country (Brazil or
Portugal) on the racism against Black people. The results are discussed based on some
contemporary theories about stereotypes and racism, stressing the sociocognitive tendency to
essentialisation and naturalization of the difference between groups, specially the racialization and
etnicization of minorities.
2098.124 Hostile sexism and benevolent sexism in Japanese high school students, Kumiko
Takabayashi, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
This study examined whether high school students in Japan showed hostile sexism and benevolent
sexism when they feel threat to self. It was assumed that participants who feel threat were more
likely to apply non-traditional women stereotype “ competent but not warm”, and traditional
women stereotype “not competent but warm” than participants who do not feel threat. As a result,
despite threat, on the whole career-oriented women were evaluated more favorably than
housewife-oriented women, although housewife-oriented women were evaluated favorably as
dream bait. This results were affected the recent social tendency of gender equality and women’s
social advancement.
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