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In This Experiment, Kay Deaux And Tim Emswiller Are Testing

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In this experiment, Kay Deaux and Tim Emswiller are testing and analyzing the attributions made to luck versus skill in explaining the performance of a stimulus person. They hypothesized that when people are asked to evaluate the performance of a male or a female on either a male or female related task, where they both perform equally well on both tasks, the male’s performance will be attributed to skill, while the female’s performance will be attributed to luck. On the other hand, when it’s a female related task, the female’s performance will be more strongly attributed to skill and the male’s performance will be more strongly attributed to luck. Previous investigations of male and female performance in equivalent situations has …show more content…

The test taking partners were previously taped recordings by either a male or female answering the discrimination questions. The subjects were told that the test taker would be shown a series of pictures on a video of familiar objects embedded in a camouflaged background. Each picture was shown for approximately one second and the test taker would then have to make a true or false response determining whether the object seen on screen was the same as the one listed. The subjects would hear the question number and the true or false response of the test taker. The subjects were given mimeographed answer forms that were assumed to match the ones in front of the test takers. The subjects answer forms contained the correct answers so that they could keep track of the test takers scores. There were two tasks consisting of twenty-five questions each. The first consisted of household objects and was female oriented. The second consisted of mechanical objects and was male oriented. There was only one task completed during each experimental session chosen by the experimenter. The instructions given to each subject emphasized that a person’s performance is influenced by factors such as luck, ability, and effort. These factors were told to be kept in mind as well as the tone and hesitation in the test takers voice.
In each case the test-takers answered 16 of the 25 questions correctly, while the norm was told to the subjects

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