Jennifer Berdahl, University of Toronto Rate Professors

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University of Toronto St. George Campus - Business

University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor
Jennifer worked at University of California, Berkeley as a Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Professor
Jennifer worked at University of Toronto as a Professor
University of Toronto
Associate Professor
Jennifer worked at University of Toronto as a Associate Professor
The Urban Institute
Research Assistant
Jennifer worked at The Urban Institute as a Research Assistant
The University of British Columbia
Montalbano Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity
Jennifer worked at The University of British Columbia as a Montalbano Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity
The University of British Columbia
Professor
Jennifer worked at The University of British Columbia as a Professor
The University of British Columbia
Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity
Jennifer worked at The University of British Columbia as a Professor of Leadership Studies: Gender and Diversity
American Association of University Women
Administrative Assistant
Jennifer worked at American Association of University Women as a Administrative Assistant

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PhD
Social, Industrial, and Organizational Psychology
Macalester College
BA
Social Psychology

Prescriptive stereotypes and workplace consequences for East Asians in North America.
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology
We pursue the idea that racial stereotypes are not only descriptive, reflecting beliefs about how racial groups actually differ, but are prescriptive as well, reflecting beliefs about how racial groups should differ. Drawing on an analysis of the historic and current status of East Asians in North America, we study descriptive and prescriptive stereotypes of East Asians along the dimensions of competence, warmth, and dominance and examine workplace consequences of violating these stereotypes. Study 1 shows that East Asians are descriptively stereotyped as more competent, less warm, and less dominant than Whites. Study 2 shows that only the descriptive stereotype of East Asians as less dominant than Whites is also a prescriptive stereotype. Study 3 reveals that people dislike a dominant East Asian coworker compared to a nondominant East Asian or a dominant or a nondominant White coworker. Study 4 shows that East Asians who are dominant or warm are racially harassed at work more than nondominant East Asians and than dominant and nondominant employees of other racial identities. Implications for research and theory are discussed.

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Jennifer Berdahl