23871: Do Professional Errors Differentially Impact Women and Men? A Crowdsourced Test

Friday, July 25, 2025

16:00 - 17:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hub (Orange) Poster 202

Session Type: Poster
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/8Yp4aj

Author(s)

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Oriana De Saint Priest

Singapore Management University
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Christilene Du Plessis

Singapore Management University
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Michael Schaerer

Singapore Management U., Singapore
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Ming Ma

Yale University, United States
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Melissa Ferguson

Yale University
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Eric Luis Uhlmann

INSEAD, Singapore

Is the status of counter-stereotypical men and women more fragile, leading them to face steeper penalties for professional mistakes? Drawing generalizable conclusions about this is challenging due to the diversity of performance domains and career outcomes. To test the robustness of the "status fragility" effect (Brescoll, Dawson, & Uhlmann, 2010), we used the “many designs” approach (Baribault et al., 2019) across a sample of 8,339 participants to conduct replications, including both explicit self-report ratings and indirect measures of competence associations. Results suggest that the reputational consequences of on-the-job errors are increasingly similar for women and men today, although some differences in terms of perceived competence persist.

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