Is kindness less optional for women than for men?
At least in the workplace it is:
In 2 experimental studies, the authors hypothesized that the performance of altruistic citizenship behavior in a work setting would enhance the favorability of men's (but not women's) evaluations and recommendations, whereas the withholding of altruistic citizenship behavior would diminish the favorability of women's (but not men's) evaluations and recommendations. Results supported the authors' predictions. Together with the results of a 3rd study demonstrating that work-related altruism is thought to be less optional for women than for men, these results suggest that gender-stereotypic prescriptions regarding how men and women should behave result in different evaluative reactions to the same altruistic behavior, depending on the performer's sex. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: "Same Behavior, Different Consequences: Reactions to Men's and Women's Altruistic Citizenship Behavior." from Journal of Applied PsychologyI'd love to hear some reader comments on this one.
Are angry women more like men?
Is there a deeper connection between heat and being "hot-headed"?
What kind of men and women are more prone to anger and feeling entitled?
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