The women-are-wonderful effect is the phenomenon, found across psychological and sociological research, in which people associate more positive attributes with women than with men. The phrase was coined by Alice Eagly and Antonio Mladinic in 1994, after they found that both male and female participants tended to assign positive traits to women, with female participants showing a substantially stronger version of the bias; participants of both genders still assigned positive traits to men, but to a much smaller degree.
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountPeople associate more positive attributes with women than with men, an emotional bias toward women found across psychological and sociological research. 1 First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Type of PhenomenonSourced to the subject's own accountSocial or Interpersonal Phenomenon 1 Connections
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Coined the phrase with Antonio Mladinic in 1994.
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1. Women-Are-Wonderful Effect (Wikipedia)
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The phrase was coined by Alice Eagly and Antonio Mladinic in 1994 after finding that both male and female participants tend to assign positive traits to women, with female participants showing a far more pronounced bias.
lead section, phenomenon-kind classification
The women-are-wonderful effect is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with women than with men.
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