TY - GEN
T1 - The White leader prototype in China?
AU - Toh, Soo Min
AU - Leonardelli, Geoffrey J.
AU - Hu, Jing
PY - 2017/11/30
Y1 - 2017/11/30
N2 - Regardless of their race, U.S. and European participants exhibit a White leader prototype, associating being White and leadership. It is unclear if this association is a function of cultural exposure (suggesting other races would be associated with leadership in non-White cultures) or White dominance (even in non-White cultures, being White is associated with leadership). To test these competing explanations, this study recruited Chinese locals (n=71) and Canadian locals (n=101), measuring their responses on a leader Implicit Association Test and a leader generation task. On both measures, relative to Canadian locals, Chinese locals exhibited an association between being Chinese and leadership rather than being White and leadership, supporting a cultural exposure explanation. Exposure to Chinese and Western media yielded additional support for the cultural exposure explanation. A cultural exposure explanation indicates that, to reduce racial bias in leader prototypes, expose individuals to a racially diverse set of leaders.
AB - Regardless of their race, U.S. and European participants exhibit a White leader prototype, associating being White and leadership. It is unclear if this association is a function of cultural exposure (suggesting other races would be associated with leadership in non-White cultures) or White dominance (even in non-White cultures, being White is associated with leadership). To test these competing explanations, this study recruited Chinese locals (n=71) and Canadian locals (n=101), measuring their responses on a leader Implicit Association Test and a leader generation task. On both measures, relative to Canadian locals, Chinese locals exhibited an association between being Chinese and leadership rather than being White and leadership, supporting a cultural exposure explanation. Exposure to Chinese and Western media yielded additional support for the cultural exposure explanation. A cultural exposure explanation indicates that, to reduce racial bias in leader prototypes, expose individuals to a racially diverse set of leaders.
KW - leader
KW - leader prototype
KW - race and ethnicity
U2 - 10.5465/ambpp.2016.15124abstract
DO - 10.5465/ambpp.2016.15124abstract
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Academy of Management Proceedings
BT - The White leader prototype in China?
ER -