caa a22 4500 606232575 CHVBK 20210128101227.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0412-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0412-1 Ironic Effects of Sexual Minority Group Membership:Are Lesbians Less Susceptible to Invoking Negative Female Stereotypes than Heterosexual Women? [Elektronische Daten] [Claudia Niedlich, Melanie Steffens, Jacqueline Krause, Elisabeth Settke, Irena Ebert] The traditional stereotype of the typical woman has been described as "nice, but incompetent.” However, such general gender stereotypes are applied to individual targets only under certain conditions: They are used to "fill in the blanks” (Heilman, 2012) if little personal information is provided about a target. "Typical lesbians” are regarded to have more typically masculine (agentic) characteristics such as task competence than the typical woman does. We thus hypothesized that if a woman displays behavior coinciding with the stereotype of the typical woman, it is more readily interpreted as stereotypically female if performed by a heterosexual woman than by a lesbian. Participants (N=296) read a hypothetical job interview in which we manipulated the target's sexual orientation (between subjects). Findings demonstrated that a lesbian was judged as more competent than a heterosexual woman in the presence of behavior that may be interpreted as gender-stereotypical (Experiments 1 and 2). This difference in competence judgments was not found in the absence of gender-stereotypical behavior (Experiment 1). Judging the heterosexual woman as low in masculinity was related to a judgment of lower competence (Experiment 2). Our findings demonstrate that there are conditions under which lesbians, a group often stereotyped negatively, are less susceptible to invoking negative female stereotypes than heterosexual women are. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Sexual orientation nationallicence Attitudes towards homosexuality nationallicence Gender bias nationallicence Competence judgments nationallicence Job applications nationallicence Niedlich Claudia Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76 829, Landau/Pfalz, Germany aut Steffens Melanie Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76 829, Landau/Pfalz, Germany aut Krause Jacqueline Department of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany aut Settke Elisabeth Department of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany aut Ebert Irena Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76 829, Landau/Pfalz, Germany aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1439-1447 0004-0002 44:5<1439 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0412-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0412-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Niedlich Claudia Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76 829, Landau/Pfalz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Steffens Melanie Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76 829, Landau/Pfalz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Krause Jacqueline Department of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Settke Elisabeth Department of Sociology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ebert Irena Department of Social and Economic Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Fortstraße 7, 76 829, Landau/Pfalz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/5(2015-07-01), 1439-1447 0004-0002 44:5<1439 2015 44 10508