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Social psychological processes that characterize the relations between women and men 

The relations between women and men have unique characteristics, which make this context different than other contexts of intergroup relations. For example, there is a societal debate about issues such as the meaning of sexual consent, whether prostitution should be legalized or criminalized, and whether it is true that "nice guys finish last". The research carried out in the lab aims to shed light on these debates, the social psychological motivations underlying different opinions on them, their effects on relationship satisfaction, and how they manifest in online communities (e.g., among pick up artists). â€‹While this research is still in progress, below you can read about previous research projects related to the topic of the relations between men and women. 

Journal articles and book chapters
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2024

Kahalon, R., Klein, V., & Shnabel, N. (2024). Self-objectification and sexual dysfunction among women: Testing and extending objectification theory. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3056

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2023

Soares De Almieda, A., Gillath, O., Kahalon, R., & Shnabel, N. (2023). Effects of Attachment Security Priming on Women's Math Performance. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124308

 

2021

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Kahalon, R., Becker, J., C., & Shnabel, N. (2021). Appearance comments presented as compliments at work: How are they perceived by targets and observers in and outside of workplace settings? Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

 

Bareket, O., Shnabel, N., Kende, A., Knab, N., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2021). Need some help, honey? Dependency-oriented helping relations between women and men in the domestic sphere. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1175–1203.

 

2020

 

Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N., & Becker, J. C. (2020). The effects of exposure to positive gender stereotypes on women’s and men’s performance in counter-stereotypical tasks and pursuit of agentic and communal goals. Social Psychology, 51, 50–62.

 

Bareket, O., & Shnabel, N. (2020). Domination and objectification: Men’s motivation for dominance affects their tendency to sexually objectify women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 24, 28-49.

 

Ramati-Ziber, L., Shnabel, N., & Glick, P. (2020). The beauty myth: Prescriptive beauty norms for women reflect hierarchy-enhancing motivations leading to discriminatory employment practices. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 317-343.

 

2019

 

Kahalon, R., Bareket, O., Vial, A., Sassenhagen, N., Becker, J., & Shnabel, N. (2019). The Madonna-Whore Dichotomy is associated with patriarchy endorsement: Evidence from Israel, the United States, and Germany. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 43, 348-367.

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Bareket, O., Shnabel, N., Abeles, D., Gervais, S., & Yuval-Greenberg, S. (2019). Evidence for association between men’s spontaneous objectifying gazing behavior and endorsement of objectifying attitudes towards women. Sex Roles, 81, 245–256.

 

2018

 

Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N., & Becker, J. (2018). Experimental studies on state self-objectification: A review and an integrative process model. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1268.

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Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N., & Becker, J. (2018). "Don't bother your pretty little head": Appearance compliments lead to improved mood but impaired cognitive performance. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42, 136-150.

 

Bareket, O., Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N.,& Glick, P. (2018). The Madonna-whore dichotomy: Men who perceive women's nurturance and sexuality as mutually exclusive endorse patriarchy and show lower relationship satisfaction. Sex Roles, 79, 519-532.

 

Kahalon, R., Shnabel, N., & Becker, J. (2018). Positive stereotypes, negative outcomes: Reminders of the positive components of complementary gender stereotypes impair performance in counter-stereotypical tasks. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57, 482-502.

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Kende, A., & Shnabel, N. (2018). Benevolent sexism and cross-gender helping: Challenging or maintaining the gender status quo? In E. van Leeuwen & H., Zagefka (Eds.), Intergroup helping: The positive side of intergroup behaviour (pp. 23-44). New York: Springer.

 

Earlier work

 

Shnabel, N., Bar-Anan, Y., Kende, A., Bareket, O., & Lazar, Y. (2016). Help to perpetuate traditional gender roles: Benevolent sexism increases engagement in dependency-oriented cross gender helping. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, 55-75.

 

Shnabel, N., Purdie-Vaughns, V., Cook, J.E., Garcia, J., & Cohen, G.L. (2013). Demystifying values-affirmation interventions: Writing about social-belonging is a key to buffering against stereotype threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 39, 663-676.

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Nurit Shnabel 2021

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