Cheryan et al. (2013) conducted a study in which undergraduate women who were not computer science majors met a role model who they were told was a computer science major. With a 2 × 2 experimental design, the role model was either a man or a woman and was either stereotypical for computer science or not stereotypical. The results indicated that ______.

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The results indicate that exposure to the stereotypical role model reduced women's interest in computer science. Specifically, women who met the stereotypical male computer science major reported less interest in computer science than women who met the non-stereotypical male computer science major or the female computer science major (who was either stereotypical or non-stereotypical). This suggests that negative stereotypes about who belongs in computer science can discourage women from pursuing the field.

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