MALE AND FEMALE EVALUATIONS OF GENDER-APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR IN A COLLEGE SETTING.
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Title
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MALE AND FEMALE EVALUATIONS OF GENDER-APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR IN A COLLEGE SETTING.
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Identifier
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AAI8601640
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identifier
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8601640
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Creator
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FRANCOIS, FRANCES.
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Contributor
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Florence L. Denmark
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Date
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1985
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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One hundred and seventeen faculty and 112 students from six colleges completed questionnaires based on vignettes containing abrasive and conciliatory speeches. The speeches were labeled with either male or female names, or had no gender identification.;The purpose was to determine differences, if any, in responses to the vignettes based on sex of subject, status (faculty or student) of subject, and sex of actor.;It was hypothesized that (1) more actors in the unidentified gender condition would be judged male, (2) female actors who displayed stereotypically masculine behaviors would be judged more extremely than would males displaying these behaviors, while the converse would be true for male faculty and male students, (3) female faculty would be less extreme than female students in their judgments of female actors who displayed out-of-role behaviors, while the converse would be true for male faculty and male students, and (4) professors in science and mathematics departments would be more extreme in their ratings of female out-of-role behavior than would faculty in the social science departments.;Hypothesis 1 was supported. More actors in the gender unidentified condition were judged to be male. Hypothesis 2 was not supported. Male subjects perceived the conciliatory female character as displaying more stereotypically masculine behaviors than the male conciliatory actor, while the females perceived the male conciliatory actor as displaying more of them than the female conciliatory actor. No differences were observed for either abrasive actor. Hypothesis 3 was partially supported. There were no differences in the female faculty or students in their ratings of the abrasive female actor. However, the male students rated the conciliatory male actor as displaying less of the stereotypically masculine behaviors than did the male faculty. Hypothesis 4 was partially supported. The abrasive female character was seen as less attractive and less influential by the science and mathematics faculty than by the social science faculty. However, the science and mathematics faculty found her less rigid than did the social science faculty.;It is concluded that people like and value both males and females who tend to be conciliatory, rather than abrasive, and that abrasive behavior is condoned for men, but not for women. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
