Are Women Perceived as Worse Magicians Than Men? Gender Bias When Evaluating Magic Tricks

Are Women Perceived as Worse Magicians Than Men? Gender Bias When Evaluating Magic Tricks

We present two experiments investigating the effect of the perceived gender of a magician on the perception of the quality of magic tricks. In Experiment 1, tricks performed by an allegedly female magician were considered worse than those by an allegedly male magician. In Experimen...

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Main Authors: Pascal Gygax, Cyril Thomas, André Didierjean, Gustav Kuhn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen 2019-11-01
Series:Social Psychological Bulletin
Online Access:https://spb.psychopen.eu/article/33574/download/pdf/
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spelling doaj-7f4a767498a340a89fe8c22ce39ba1a12020-11-25T03:26:30ZengPsychOpenSocial Psychological Bulletin1896-18002569-653X2019-11-0114311910.32872/spb.v14i3.3357433574Are Women Perceived as Worse Magicians Than Men? Gender Bias When Evaluating Magic TricksPascal Gygax0Cyril Thomas1André Didierjean2Gustav Kuhn3University of FribourgUniversity of ParisUniversity of Franche-ComtéUniversity of Goldsmith We present two experiments investigating the effect of the perceived gender of a magician on the perception of the quality of magic tricks. In Experiment 1, tricks performed by an allegedly female magician were considered worse than those by an allegedly male magician. In Experiment 2, participants had to generate possible solutions to how the tricks were done. Under these conditions, male participants were better at explaining the tricks, but the gender effect found in Experiment 1 disappeared. We discuss the gender bias in Experiment 1 and the lack of bias in Experiment 2 in terms of specific social and cognitive mechanisms (e.g., cognitive dissonance). https://spb.psychopen.eu/article/33574/download/pdf/
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Are Women Perceived as Worse Magicians Than Men? Gender Bias When Evaluating Magic Tricks
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description We present two experiments investigating the effect of the perceived gender of a magician on the perception of the quality of magic tricks. In Experiment 1, tricks performed by an allegedly female magician were considered worse than those by an allegedly male magician. In Experiment 2, participants had to generate possible solutions to how the tricks were done. Under these conditions, male participants were better at explaining the tricks, but the gender effect found in Experiment 1 disappeared. We discuss the gender bias in Experiment 1 and the lack of bias in Experiment 2 in terms of specific social and cognitive mechanisms (e.g., cognitive dissonance).
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