The influence of magazines on men: normalizing and challenging young men’s prejudice with “lads’ mags” [PDF]
Social psychologists have argued that popular UK and USA men’s magazines known as lads’ mags have normalized hostile sexism among young men. Three studies develop this argument. First, a survey of 423 young UK men found that ambivalent sexism predicted
Blockmans, Inge G. E. +3 more
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According to ambivalent sexism theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), the coexistence of gendered power differences and mutual interdependence creates two apparently opposing but complementary sexist ideologies: hostile sexism (HS; viewing women as manipulative competitors who seek to gain power over men) coincides with benevolent sexism (BS; a chivalrous view ...
Orly Bareket, Susan T. Fiske
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Sexism and Attitude Toward Reporting of Child Sexual Abuse
Long-standing sexism in the Balinese community, based on its traditional paternalistic culture, may become the main factor to underlie children's vulnerability for abuse. School teachers, considering their regularity to interact with children in schools,
Inke Kusumastuti
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Ambivalence toward men: comparing sexism among Polish, South African and British university students [PDF]
This study extends the literature on attitudes toward gender roles by exploring whether the nature of sexism (i.e., benevolence and hostility directed at men) differs among university students from two under-researched countries, Poland (n = 190) and ...
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Insidious dangers of benevolent sexism: Consequences for women's performance [PDF]
Four experiments found benevolent sexism to be worse than hostile sexism for women's cognitive performance. Experiments 1-2 showed effects of paternalist benevolent sexism and ruled out explanations of perceived sexism, context pleasantness, and ...
Bollier, Thierry +2 more
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Does Humour Influence Perceptions of the Ethicality of Female-Disparaging Advertising? [PDF]
This article responds to calls for further research on ethical issues in advertising. The study examines whether advertising strategies which use female-disparaging themes are perceived as ethical, and what effect this has on ad and brand attitudes.
Balabanis, G., Grougiou, V., Manika, D.
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The role of sexual orientation and the perceived threat posed by men in the acceptance of sexism
We aimed at examining the differences between straight (N = 583) and gay (N = 112) people in terms of the acceptance of ambivalent sexist attitudes not only toward women (ASI) but also toward men (AMI) and how the level of perceived threat posed by men ...
Éva Magdolna Kántás, Monika Kovacs
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Topic Modelling of Everyday Sexism Project Entries [PDF]
The Everyday Sexism Project documents everyday examples of sexism reported by volunteer contributors from all around the world. It collected 100,000 entries in 13+ languages within the first 3 years of its existence.
Eccles, Kathryn +2 more
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The role of gender and psychosocial factors on perceived vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection among young and middle aged adults in Benin City, Nigeria [PDF]
Objective: Nigeria’s effort to curb the spiralling pandemic of HIV has yielded little result despite her reputation as the country with the second largest number of HIV infected persons in the world.
Taiwo, Abigail Olubola
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The aim of the present study was to explore the association between perceptions of inter- personal/informational justice and ambivalent sexism among Argentinean employees, and to examine the possible role that collectivism and individualism exert on this
Juan Diego Vaamonde, Alicia Omar
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