Manvising in the U.S : how some men advise and women's perceptions of their status
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In U.S. popular culture, some women report that men "manvise" or give them unsolicited, generic, and prescriptive advice. Six studies (N = 4,102) investigate the impact of this type of paternalistic advice on women's status perceptions. Chapter 1 introduces the problem of "manvising" and Chapter 2 confirms that women perceive that men more often give unsolicited, generic, and prescriptive advice than women do. Chapter 3 uses vignette studies to show that men manvising leads women to anticipate having less status themselves and that women in general will have less status in the future. These effects were somewhat attenuated when men provided more responsive advice, and were mediated by perceptions of responsiveness, or the extent to which people feel understood and validated. Chapter 3 also explored the unique effects of men manvising: women anticipated feeling greater gender identity threat when men (vs. women) give unsolicited, generic and prescriptive advice. Chapter 4 examines manvising during live text interactions and shows that women felt less respected when partnered with men who manvised. In contrast, when partnered with men who asked more questions, women reported feeling greater state status. Furthermore, Chapter 4 also finds that men perceive having a larger self and feel more heard when they manvise. Overall, this initial examination of the phenomenon of manvising suggests that it is an everyday conversational practice that may subtly reduce women's perception of their status and also reinforce their perceptions of the gender hierarchy, which may in turn contribute to women's lower status and gender inequality in the U.S.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Santoro, Erik William |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Thesis advisor | Markus, Hazel Rose |
| Thesis advisor | Crum, Alia |
| Thesis advisor | Monin, Benoît, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Crum, Alia |
| Degree committee member | Monin, Benoît, 1972- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Erik Santoro. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ky772nc3450 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Erik William Santoro
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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