Title

Evaluation Bias In The Business Classroom: Evidence Relating To The Effects Of Previous Experiences

Abstract

We found that teaching evaluations were assigned as a function of the professors' gender and students' previous experience with a female professor. Based on the professor's style of organization, enthusiasm, credibility, and effectiveness, and students' willingness to take a course with the professor, students assigned higher evaluations to male professors than female professors. Previous experience with a female faculty member was found to be a relevant variable influencing perceived credibility, organization, and effectiveness evaluations. The findings imply that exposure to women in positions of responsibility may reduce stereotypical attitudes regarding women's ability to function in gender-atypical roles. © 1991 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

1-1-1991

Publication Title

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volume

125

Issue

4

Number of Pages

469-477

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1991.10543309

Socpus ID

0001132624 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0001132624

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