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Stock Market Stereotypes Undervalue Female Directors in The Short-Term

By Guest PostFebruary 27, 2012Economyaim, alan gregory, board appointment, female directors, ftse all share, gender differences, ian tonks, male directors, negative stereotypes, policy makers.value.representation of women, stereotypes, stock market, university of exeter

New research into how the stock market perceives the capabilities of female company directors finds that an initial negative response by investors is overturned in the longer term, once markets respond to corporate performance rather than stereotypes.

The study analysed the stock market response to male and female directors’ purchases of their own company shares, examining both the short-run and long-run stock market reaction response to directors’ trades.

Results suggest that the price reaction to male directors’ share activity is initially faster and larger than that for female directors, showing that the short-term market reaction retains a gender bias reflecting the prevalence of negative stereotypes; where the market reacts to beliefs rather than performance. (more…)

People Don’t Just Think with Their Guts; Logic Plays a Role Too

By Guest PostJanuary 2, 2012Generaldecisions, france, gut, intuitive, logic, psychologists, red balls, Science, stereotypes, thinking, understand the logic, university of toulouse, wim de neys

For decades, science has suggested that when people make decisions, they tend to ignore logic and go with the gut. But Wim De Neys, a psychological scientist at the University of Toulouse in France, has a new suggestion: Maybe thinking about logic is also intuitive. He writes about this idea in the January issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Psychologists have partly based their conclusions about reasoning and decision-making on questions like this one:

“Bill is 34. He is intelligent, punctual but unimaginative and somewhat lifeless. In school, he was strong in mathematics but weak in social studies and humanities. (more…)

Study Shows Black Youth are Politically Involved, Critical of Rap Music and Skeptical of a Post–Racial Society

By Guest PostOctober 24, 2010Culture, Politics21st century, american politics, Barack Obama, black youth, black youth project, cathy cohen, ford foundation, knowledge networks, latinos, mary winton, politically involved, post racial era, rap music, robert wood johnson foundation, same-sex marriage, stereotypes, videos

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Many of the assumptions people have about black youth — that they are politically detached and negatively influenced by rap music and videos—are false stereotypes, according to a new University of Chicago study by

Prof. Cathy Cohen, based on surveys and conversations with the youth themselves.

Black youth say they are politically involved, critical of many messages in rap and skeptical of the idea that the country has entered a post–racial era. They also are socially conservative on political issues such same–sex marriage, said Cohen, the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science and lead researcher of the study. (more…)

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Stock Market Stereotypes Undervalue Female Directors in The Short-Term

People Don’t Just Think with Their Guts; Logic Plays a Role Too

Study Shows Black Youth are Politically Involved, Critical of Rap Music and Skeptical of a Post–Racial Society