Competent and Warm but Unemotional: The Influence of Occupational Stereotypes…

The present research aims to assess how occupational stereotypes, and in particular, stereotypes about doctors, influence the observers’ perception of the emotions expressed by members of this group. For this, 60 men and women judged the emotions of women who expressed either happiness, anger, sadness, or a neutral expression and whose faces were either uncovered or covered with a surgical m…