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14 Facts About Alice Eagly

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Alice H Eagly was born on 1938 and is the James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences Emerita and emerita professor of psychology at Northwestern University.

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Alice Eagly is a fellow at the Institute of Policy Research at Northwestern University.

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Alice Eagly was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.

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Alice Eagly completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University in Social Relations in 1960.

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Alice Eagly holds two honorary doctorates: from the University of Bern and from Erasmus University.

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Alice Eagly has held teaching positions at several universities including Northwestern University, Michigan State University, University of Massachusetts, and Purdue University, as well as visiting positions at University of Illinois, Harvard University, University of Tubingen, University of Amsterdam, and University of Southern California.

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Alice Eagly has written or contributed to 7 books and over 100 journal articles.

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Alice Eagly uses much of her research to show that discrimination happens when the individual steps outside of the given stereotype ascribed to their group.

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Alice Eagly explores this idea in her research to show that the attributes ascribed to the group are not necessarily negative, but just different from that which is assumed of the group.

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Alice Eagly found that changing one's expected marital role could not eliminate gender differences in preference for earning potential; women consistently looked for a greater earning potential in a mate compared to men.

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Alice Eagly suggests that men and women were constrained to certain roles in the work force and then assumed to embody the psychological characteristics of those roles without exception.

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When working with the feminist theory, Alice Eagly introduces the biosocial theory that considers the division of labor as a core principle.

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Alice Eagly believes that when considering feminism and science there are not specifically congruent ideas that point to sameness when considering the biological differences between men and women.

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Alice Eagly stands for accuracy and interpreting scientific data in order to be used when making these comparisons.