Laura Kray
Berkeley-Haas Management of Organizations
Connson Locke
affiliation not provided to SSRN
Michael Haselhuhn
University of California, Riverside (UCR)
2007
IACM 2007 Meetings Paper
Abstract:
We present two experiments that explore how endorsing the belief that innate ability differences apply to men and women affects performance in mixed-motive negotiations. In contrast to stereotype lift (Walton & Cohen, 2003), which predicts a benefit for positively stereotyped negotiators, we demonstrate in Experiment 1 that gender stereotype endorsement impairs performance for positively stereotyped negotiators relative to negatively stereotyped negotiators, and decreases joint performance by causing both negotiators to overlook commonalities. In Experiment 2, we explore whether reactions to stereotype endorsement are moderated by negotiators’ implicit beliefs about the malleability of performance. We demonstrate that stereotype reactance by the negatively stereotyped negotiator is promoted by a belief that negotiating ability is malleable, whereas a belief that negotiating ability is fixed renders negotiators immune to the endorsement of gender stereotypes.
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