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H Zhang, X Zhou, MS Nielsen… - … Theory and Practice, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com

The Role of Stereotype Threat, Anxiety, and Emotional Intelligence in Women's Opportunity Evaluation.

stereotype threat

Nielsen

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Masculine stereotypes of entrepreneurship represent a threat to women. We aim to understand how such stereotype threat affects women's opportunity evaluation through anxiety. We test our idea using a two-randomized-experiment strategy and achieve external validity using a survey of female entrepreneurs. We find that situational anxiety, as an emotional mechanism, explains why stereotype threat negatively influences opportunity evaluation among women. We further unveil emotional intelligence as a boundary condition …

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