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Gender schema theory: A cognitive account of sex typing.
Abstract
Gender schema theory proposes that the phenomenon of sex typing derives, in part, from gender-based schematic processing, from a generalized readiness to process information on the basis of the sex-linked associations that constitute the gender schema. In particular, the theory proposes that sex typing results from the fact that the self-concept itself gets assimilated to the gender schema. Several studies are described which demonstrate that sex-typed individuals do, in fact, have a greater readiness to process information—including information about the self—in terms of the gender schema. It is speculated that such gender-based schematic processing derives, in part, from the society's ubiquitous insistence on the functional importance of the gender dichotomy. The political implications of gender schema theory are discussed, as is the relationship of the theory to the concept of androgyny. The distinction between male and female serves as a basic organizing principle for every human culture. Although societies differ in the specific tasks they assign to the two sexes, all societies allocate adult roles on the basis of sex and anticipate this allocation in the socialization of their children. Not only are boys and girls expected to acquire sex-specific skills, they are also expected to have or to acquire sex-specific self
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- Authors
- Bem, S. L.
- Venue
- Psychological Review
- Published
- 1981
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 354-364
- ISSN
- 0033-295X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1471
- OpenAlex
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- 3,861
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 99.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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