UNCOVERING THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL NATURE OF STEREOTYPE INFERENCES: A WITHIN-PARTICIPANTS STUDY OF GENDER, AGE, AND PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS.

Autor: Grant, Malcolm J., Button, Cathryn M., Hannah, T. Edward, Ross, Abraham S.
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Zdroj: Current Research in Social Psychology; 9/10/2002, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p1-1, 1p, 4 Charts
Abstrakt: Eighty undergraduates guessed the attitudes of several people whose pictures they were shown. Within-participant regression analyses were conducted to assess, at the individual level, the influence of targets' gender, age, and physical attractiveness. Participants expected men to adopt conservative positions on child discipline, feminism, immigration, and homosexuality while women were expected to be conservative on religion. Older people were expected to be more conservative on most issues while attractive persons, independent of age, were expected to be more liberal. In addition, examination of interaction effects revealed several instances where gender stereotypes were moderated by either the age or attractiveness of the targets. We conclude that stereotypes frequently combine in an interactive fashion and that future investigations of these interactions would benefit from the within-participant, multiple-target procedure used here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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