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Peer reviewedKite, Mary E.; Whitley, Bernard E., Jr. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Used meta-analytic techniques to compare men's and women's attitudes toward homosexual persons, homosexual behaviors, and gay people's civil rights. As expected, size of sex differences varied across these categories. Men were more negative than women toward homosexual persons and homosexual behavior, but the sexes viewed gay civil rights…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Bias, Civil Rights
Peer reviewedSwim, Janet – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1993
Examines the extent to which the effect of gender of a target person on evaluators' judgments reflects evaluators' tendencies not to use the evaluee's gender because they assume case information is more valuable. Results with 144 female and 92 male college students in 2 studies demonstrate that evaluators do use gender stereotypes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
