Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Koellinger, Ph.D.
Author-Name-Last: Koellinger
Author-Name-First: Philipp
Author-Person: pko149
Author-Name: Block, J.H.
Author-Name-Last: Block
Author-Name-First: Jörn
Author-Person: pbl61
Title: Attractive Supervisors: How Does the Gender of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of the Supervisees?
Abstract: A series of field and laboratory experiments were conducted in which single-sex groups of male or female students competed in different intellectual tasks to earn money or university grades (N = 291). The supervisor of these groups was one of several young and attractive males or females. The results show that when the supervisor was a female, the performance of male participants was, on average, negatively influenced. Group size moderated this effect such that having a female supervisor produced a negative effect in small groups and a positive effect in large groups of male supervisees.
Creation-Date: 2012-02-10
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/31465/ERS-2012-003-STR.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2012-003-STR
Classification-JEL: D03, J01, M54
Keywords: mixed-sex interaction, performance, supervision
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:31465