Authors

Lauren S. Schapiro '16, Gettysburg College

Anne M. Schoenfeld '16, Gettysburg College

William C. Thomas '16, Gettysburg College

Location

CUB Ballroom

Session

Poster Presentations

Start Time

4-29-2016 4:30 PM

End Time

4-29-2016 6:15 PM

Supervising Faculty Member

Sahana Mukherjee

Department

Psychology

Description

When looking into the idea of if one's gender and their self-construal has an effect on how they perceive racism, we hypothesize that women will take a more interdependent self-construal and men will take a more independent self-construal. Based on how they identify, we believe that those in the interdependent condition will perceive more racism and those in the independent condition will perceive less racism.

Document Type

Poster

COinS
 
Apr 29th, 4:30 PM Apr 29th, 6:15 PM

The Effects of Gender and Self Construal on Perception of Racism

CUB Ballroom

When looking into the idea of if one's gender and their self-construal has an effect on how they perceive racism, we hypothesize that women will take a more interdependent self-construal and men will take a more independent self-construal. Based on how they identify, we believe that those in the interdependent condition will perceive more racism and those in the independent condition will perceive less racism.