Samantha Green Versus Peter Stevens: Reversed Implicit Gender Stereotype in Online Chess

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: Motivation and Cognitive Processes (San Diego)

Abstract

In chess it has been demonstrated that women’s performance is affected when they are exposed to negative stereotypes about their chess ability. However, it is still unclear whether the influence of a negative stereotype is only limited to their level of performance, or that it could also affect their opponent’s performance. The present study investigated this reversed stereotype threat in online chess. It was expected that a participant’s performance will be influenced by the gender of their opponent. However, the participants’ opponent was neither a female nor male chess player, but a computer program that either played with a male or female nickname. Results showed that participants played indeed less well against a female nickname than against a male nickname.

Author

• Remigius M. Rikers, University College Roosevelt