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Influence Of Sex Role Stereotypes On Ratings Of Male And Female Behavior, Constance Barclay
Influence Of Sex Role Stereotypes On Ratings Of Male And Female Behavior, Constance Barclay
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An attempt was made to investigate the extent to which individuals are unknowingly influenced by a sex role stereotype in their evaluations of men and women. It was hypothesized that subjects would describe a character in more potency-related, “masculine” terms if that character had been identified as a male than if the character had been identified as a female. Subjects taking part in this study were an equal number of male and female students in introductory psychology classes. The semantic differential technique was employed as a descriptive tool for the subjects’ evaluations of a character they read about in a …