Some evidence for a gender gap in personality and social psychology
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2016
Author(s)
Brown, A.J.
Goh, J.X.
Source
Language
English
Discipline(s)
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. © The Author(s) 2016.
Journal
Social Psychological and Personality Science
ISSN
1948-5506
Volume
7
Issue
5
Pagination
437-443