The Emotional Impact of Ambivalent Sexism: Forecasts Versus Real Experiences
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2010
Keywords
Hostile sexism, Benevolent sexism, Affective forecasting, Coping, Recovery
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-009-9664-y
Abstract
Research on affective forecasting indicates that people regularly mispredict the emotional impact of negative events. We extended this work by demonstrating several forecasting errors regarding women’s affective reactions to ambivalent sexism. In response to a survey about sexism against women, students at a university in the Central U.S. (N = 188) overestimated the negative impact of hostile sexism, and underestimated the negative impact of benevolent sexism, relative to women’s reports of their actual experiences. Moreover, people mispredicted both the intensity of women’s initial affective reactions to, and the duration of women’s recovery following, ambivalent sexism. The data supported a model in which inaccurate estimates of initial intensity fully accounted for people’s inaccurate estimates of recovery duration following ambivalent sexism.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Sex Roles, v. 62, issue 7-8, p. 520-531
Scholar Commons Citation
Bosson, Jennifer K.; Pinel, Elizabeth C.; and Vandello, Joseph A., "The Emotional Impact of Ambivalent Sexism: Forecasts Versus Real Experiences" (2010). Psychology Faculty Publications. 1172.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/1172
