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Sex Roles: How do lay people weigh information about instrumentality, expressiveness, and gender-typed hobbies when judging masculinity-femininity in themselves, best friends, and strangers?

Publication: Women and Language
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sex Roles: How do lay people weigh information about instrumentality, expressiveness, and gender-typed hobbies when judging masculinity-femininity in themselves, best friends, and strangers?(Abstracts)(Brief article)

Article Excerpt
To study how people weigh information when judging their own and others' masculinity-femininity (M-F), the author asked 170 male and 205 female participants to rate themselves and their best friends on M-F, instrumentality, expressiveness, and gender-typed hobby preferences. Also, each participant judged the M-F of eight fictitious women (or...

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