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Cloaked in Kindness: Bystander Responses to Witnessed Benevolent and Hostile Sexism
Organizations have increasingly emphasized the role of employees as potential interventionists following acts of workplace sexism. However, sexism...
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Parents’ Pre-Pandemic Benevolent Sexism Predicted Lower Parenting Strain and Psychological Distress During COVID-19 Lockdowns
One way that benevolent sexism contributes to gender inequality is by offering wellbeing benefits to women and men who fulfil idealised gender roles,...
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Dangerous Motivations: Understanding How Marginalization Relates to Benevolent Sexism Through Threat Perceptions
In the present study, we draw from ambivalent sexism and frameworks centering marginalization to investigate how individuals’ marginalized race or...
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Benevolent and hostile sexism in a shifting global context
The theory of and research on ambivalent sexism — which encompasses both attitudes that are overtly negative (hostile sexism) and those that seem...
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Benevolent and Hostile Sexism in Endorsement of Heterosexist Marriage Traditions Among Adolescents and Adults
Within most western countries, gendered proposal, surname, and wedding traditions remain widely endorsed. A previous study indicated that endorsement...
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Benevolent Sexism and the Traditional Sexual Script as Predictors of Sexual Dissatisfaction in Heterosexual Women from the U.S.
Women report lower sexual satisfaction than men. Given that sexual dissatisfaction adversely impacts health and well-being, it is imperative that we...
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Hostile and Benevolent Sexism and Attitudes Toward Establishing Consent Among Chinese Men: The Detrimental Role of Token Resistance Beliefs and Binge Drinking
Attitudes toward establishing sexual consent is an important prerequisite for understanding whether and how men will actively negotiate consent in...
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The Influence of Perceiver and Target Race in Hostile and Benevolent Sexist Attitudes
The present research investigates whether benevolent and hostile sexist attitudes are differentially directed toward Black and White women by Black...
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Gender Bias in Perceptions of Military Leaders: Hostile Sexism Moderates Men’s Evaluations of Faces
In this study, we examined the role of dispositional sexism in male service academy cadets' evaluations of military leadership potential for sexually...
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Benevolent Sexism in the Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP): A Case Study of Texas House Bill 2
Benevolent sexism takes a subjectively positive view of women in traditional gender roles, revering them as gentle, nurturing, and in need of...
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Sexism
The chapter discusses the social construction theory of gender by defining differences between sex and gender, sex roles and gender roles, and gender...
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Hostile Sexism and Gender System Justification Predict Greater Support for Girl Child Marriage in Turkey
The current study examines whether individual differences in the endorsement of hostile and benevolently sexist ideology predict attitudes toward...
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Understanding the relationships among self-ascribed gender traits, social desirability, and ambivalent sexism
The stereotypical gender traits used in self-descriptions could contribute to shape ambivalent sexist attitudes toward women, including antipathy...
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Religiosity and ambivalent sexism: the role of religious group narcissism
Although religious identification often correlates positively with traditional gender role attitudes and ambivalent sexism (Mikołajczak & Pietrzak, Sex...
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Affective and Attitudinal Features of Benevolent Heterosexism in Italy: The Italian Validation of the Multidimensional Heterosexism Inventory
IntroductionPeople who belong to a sexual and gender minority often face prejudices that have their roots in heterosexism, a sociocultural system...
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Women’s Endorsement of Heteronormative Dating Scripts is Predicted by Sexism, Feminist Identity, A Preference for Dominant Men, and A Preference Against Short-Term Relationships
Heteronormative dating scripts involve expectations for women and men to enact different behaviours in romantic contexts with one another, such as...
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Honey, Sweetie, Dear: Terms of Endearment Communicate, Reflect, and Reinforce Sexism Toward Adult Women
Four studies demonstrated how terms of endearment (ToE; e.g., “honey,” “dear”) communicate, reflect, and reinforce sexism toward adult women outside...
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Punishing Women for Miscarriage: The role of Political Orientation and Hostile Sexism
Women’s reproductive autonomy is an ideologically divisive issue, and this divisiveness goes beyond just attitudes toward abortion to include other...
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A Modified Menstrual Attitudes Scale: Heteronormative Attitudes, Sexism, and Attitudes Toward Menstruation in Male and Female Adults
Social shame and stigma surround menstruation, which may compromise women’s health and rights in various contexts. Men’s attitudes are particularly...