‘Second Thoughts’: Female Police Officers Trust Themselves Less in Snap Decision-Making

Paramio, A and Tejeiro, R ORCID: 0000-0003-1181-7123 (2025) ‘Second Thoughts’: Female Police Officers Trust Themselves Less in Snap Decision-Making. Applied Police Briefings, 2 (1). pp. 5-7. ISSN 2818-5692

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Abstract

In simulations of snap decision-making under pressure, female police officers performed equally to male officers in terms of decision time, perceived difficulty of the scenarios, and the appropriateness of their behaviour.
However, female police officers exhibited significantly less confidence in their decisions compared to their male counterparts.
These results may reflect the pressures faced by female officers due to stereotypes and the prevailing masculine-conservative police culture.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	4805 Legal Systems; 44 Human Society; 48 Law and Legal Studies; 4402 Criminology; 4407 Policy and Administration
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > HV7231 Criminal Justice Administrations > HV7551 Police. Detectives. Constabulary
Divisions:	Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher:	Carleton University Library
Related URLs:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X241258405
Date of acceptance:	19 November 2024
Date of first compliant Open Access:	9 September 2026
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2026 12:43
Last Modified:	09 Sep 2026 12:43
DOI or ID number:	10.22215/apb.v2i1.4915
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/29351

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