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their female counterparts. She followed up her experiment by asking health and body-related questions, during which she noticed men often exaggerated their height to seem more masculine. Upon realizing this, she conducted a second male-focused group study where students would answer a masculinity test with multiple-choice questions about consumer preferences and personal attributes. Those who scored lower on the test, although all results were randomized, felt the need to overcompensate by choosing more male consumer products as compensation for their time. She also led a female-focused study where she asked undergraduate students to interact with male and female actors who pretended to be computer science majors. Half of the participants interacted with actors who fit the nerdy, geeky computer scientist stereotypes who claimed to enjoy solitary hobbies, while the others interacted with actors dressed and acting like "typical college students." The results of the study fount that women were more influenced by stereotypes in computer science than gender.
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on the female undergraduate populations attending UW and
Stanford University; firstly asking them to describe computer science majors and secondly asking them to read a fabricated newspaper article. At the conclusion of the study, Cheryan concluded that women were more likely than men to be influenced by negative stereotypes surrounding STEM fields. The following year, Cheryan was invited to the
202:(NSF) to prove that negative stereotypes of computer scientists could result in less women joining the field. As a result of her research, she received the 2009 NSF's Junior Faculty Career Award for "outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations." She also earned the 2011
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American perceived homosexual Asian Americans to be more likely to speak fluent English than those whose sexual identity was not specified. Cheryan also received a visiting fellowship position in communications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
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fellow. The research project focused on the effects anti-American stereotypes had on immigrant groups in
America. She also studied the negative effects that geeky male nerd stereotypes portrayed in the media had on women joining STEM fields. Cheryan and her research colleagues conducted two studies
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During the 2016–17-year, Cheryan continued to conduct various studies on how stereotypes directly divert young girls for pursuing a career in STEM. Cheryan and her colleagues found that the culture of STEM and lack of encouragement for women to focus on math and science were the main causes of the
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In 2015, Cheryan continued her research into stereotypes by returning to
Stanford to conduct another study, this time focusing on males' perceived masculinity. She used falsified data to infer to her male participants, who were squeezing a handheld device, that they were on average or weaker than
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for her PhD. As a graduate student, she began to notice that the atmosphere of working or learning environments could directly influence ones choice to join the field. This led her to develop her thesis titled
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