Hair penalties: the negative influence of Afrocentric hair on ratings of Black women’s dominance and professionalism

Frontiers in Psychology

Tina R. Opie¹ 

关键词: dominance;    agency;    women;    professionalism;    Black;    hair;    diversity;    race;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01311

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Purpose: Women are penalized if they do not behave in a stereotype-congruent manner (Heilman, 1983, 2001; Eagly and Carli, 2007). For example, because women are not expected to be agentic they incur an “agency penalty” for expressing anger, dominance or assertiveness (Rudman, 1998; Rudman and Glick, 1999, 2001; Eagly and Karau, 2002; Rudman and Fairchild, 2004; Brescoll and Uhlmann, 2008; Livingston et al., 2012). Yet, all women are not equally penalized (Livingston et al., 2012). We make a novel contribution by examining how both White and Black evaluators respond to displays of Black women’s dominance, in this case, whether Black women choose to wear Afrocentric or Eurocentric hairstyles.

【 授权许可】

CC BY