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Ambient belonging: how stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science.

Published in Journal of personality and social psychology • Dec 1, 2009
Authors:
Sapna Cheryan
,
Victoria C Plaut
,
Paul G Davies

Abstract

People can make decisions to join a group based solely on exposure to that group's physical environment. Four studies demonstrate that the gender difference in interest in computer science is influenced by exposure to environments associated with computer scientists. In Study 1, simply changing the ...

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