Some Evidence for a Gender Gap in Personality and Social Psychology
- 11 April 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Social Psychological and Personality Science
- Vol. 7 (5), 437-443
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616644297
Abstract
This research examined a possible gender gap in personality and social psychology. According to membership demographics from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), women and men are represented near parity in the field. Yet despite this equal representation, the field may still suffer from a different type of gender gap. We examined the gender of first authors in two major journals, citations to these articles, and gender of award recipients. In random samples of five issues per year across 10 years (2004–2013; N = 1,094), 34% of first authors in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology were women and 44% of first authors in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin were women. Articles authored by men were cited more than those authored by women. In examining the gender of award recipients given by SPSP (2000–2016), on average, 25% of the recipients were women.Keywords
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