Corrects various assertions from an article on gender identity disorder in children, explaining that the original research found that 76.1 percent of gender-referred children expressed cross-sex wishes, rather than 17-36 percent of gender-referred boys, as stated in the earlier article. Notes that the original research sample included…

Identification ratings of 20 comic strip characters replicated a prediction that male characters would elicit greater identification, even though previous research showed that female characters are seen in an equivalent or more favorable light than male characters. Significant interaction findings also affirmed a great degree of same sex…

After listening to songs with male dominant/female subordinant, female dominant/male subordinant, and neutral lyrics, children recalled more content when the dominant song character was of the child's sex. Boys preferred male to female characters, while girls expressed no preferences. Boys and girls generally wanted to be like the subordinant…

In separate studies, examined (1) ways that college students allocated rewards to children performing in team and competitive situations, and (2) the relationship between sex role orientation and reward allocations. Found that sex and situational differences in reward allocations are affected by sex role orientation and differential socialization…

After observing peer models display preferences toward various objects (subsequently sex-typed by experimenters), third and fourth graders registered their own preferences. Both boys and girls preferred same-sex objects to opposite-sex objects; but unlike boys, girls did not give lower priority to opposite-sex objects than to neutral ones.…

Appreciation of cartoon humor was examined among college students categorized on the basis of Bem's Sex Role Inventory. Males preferred sexual humor to absurd humor, while females favored absurd humor. An antifemale bias in humor appreciation was found in masculine, feminine, and undifferentiated males and in masculine and androgynous females.…

This study examines the relationship between leader behavior and sex role identification. Results of two measurement instruments support a connection between masculine characteristics and structuring behavior as a leader, but do not uphold hypotheses for the relationship between sex role identity and leadership style. (Author/EB)

The author derives and cross-culturally tests the implications of four theories that may help explain men's fear of sex with women. The cross-cultural evidence is generally consistent with the four theories. A tentative causal model is presented to account for the results. (Author/MC)

Tested the hypothesis that sex differences in patterns of cognitive ability could be accounted for by variation in identification with sex-role stereotypes. Males performed better on tests of spatial ability, and females performed better on tests of fluent production. The study's hypothesis, however, was not supported. (GC)

Examined the effects of a stimulus person's gender and sex role identity and an observer's gender and sex role identity on the observer's judgment of the stimulus person's personality and level of adjustment. (Author/GC)

Experimentally examined how therapist sex role behaviors and subject sex roles influence perceptions of cotherapists conducting marital therapy. Analyzed the relationship between perceived therapist competence and verbal dominance, the effectiveness of traditional and nontraditional sex role styles, and sex-type related to preference for female…

Tested the hypothesis that adult readers would identify with story characters who display a similar gender role orientation to themselves. Findings indicate an interaction between reader's gender role and character's gender role behavior. Davis's (1983) Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Empathic Concern subscale) significantly predicted…

Examined in this study are the attitudes of male and female subjects toward a competent woman who either planned to pursue her career or stay home with her family. The consistency between the subjects' perceptions of the stimulus person and their attitudes is considered. (Author/EB)

Used two instruments to compare delinquent and nondelinquent teenaged women in terms of sex role androgyny, sex role attitudes, and heterosexual relationships. Based on the results, questions the construct validity of the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) and the Personality Research Form (PRF ANDRO). (GC)

Investigated the validity of two approaches to the assessment of female identity status: the standard Outer Space interview used with males, and an Inner Space interview specifically developed for females. Found that, contrary to Erikson's theory, college women form their identities around Outer Space as well as Inner Space issues. (Author/GC)