Susan A Basow
Biographic Data
| ID | 309060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan A Basow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Basow |
| SIGNATURE | BASOW S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lafayette College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 332 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Predicting adjustment of U.S. college students studying abroad: Beyond the multicultural personality
Changes in Psychology of Women and Psychology of Gender Textbooks (1975–2010)
Identity development and psychological well-being in Korean-born adoptees in the U.S
Because adult Korean-born adoptees have unique experiences, the factors that contribute to their psychological well-being need to be studied separately from both Caucasian and Korean Americans. In this Internet-based study with 83 adult Korean-born adoptees in the United States, both ethnic identity and adjustment to adoption (considered a component of adoptive identity) were expected to predict psychological well-being. Results supported predict…
Perceptions of Relational and Physical Aggression among College Students: Effects of Gender of Perpetrator, Target, and Perceiver
This study examined gendered perceptions of relational and physical aggressive behaviors and personal experiences with both types of aggression. Prior research suggested that physical aggression by males and relational aggression by females would be perceived most negatively. College students (186 female, 128 male) rated the acceptability and harmfulness of aggression in scenarios in which type of aggression and perpetrator and target gender were…
Body Objectification, Social Pressure, and Disordered Eating Behavior in College Women: The Role of Sorority Membership
Social pressure to conform to the thin ideal is believed to play a decisive role in the development of eating disorders. In this field study at a college with only sophomore rush, 99 sorority women, 80 nonsorority women past their first year, and 86 first-year women completed three subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2 ( Garner, 1991 ), the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale ( McKinley & Hyde, 1996 ), and a measure of peer social pressu…
Gender Patterns in College Students' Choices of Their Best and Worst Professors
Students ( N = 175) at a large public university described their best and worst professors. Male students chose a female professor as “best” less often than expected whereas female students chose a female professor as often as expected. There were no gender differences in choice of “worst” professors. Descriptions of best and worst professors varied by professor and student gender. Overall, the male student-female professor pairing seemed most af…
Femininity, Sports, and Feminism: Developing a Theory of Physical Liberation
U.S. society continues to accept myths regarding the supposed weakness of women's bodies. Women's displays of physical power are often prevented or undermined, typically in ways centering on the concept of femininity. Increasing numbers of female athletes have not led to a true physical feminist liberation, one which would increase women's confidence, power, respect, wealth, enjoyment of physicality, and escape from rape and the fear of rape. Des…
Troubles Talk”: Effects of Gender and Gender-Typing
Perceptions of Body Hair on White Women: Effects of Labeling
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The New Woman
Best and Worst Professors: Gender Patterns in Students' Choices
Predictors of Homophobia in Female College Students
Heterosexual Masculinity and Homophobia: A Reaction to the Self
Heterosexual masculinity is the cultural pressure exerted on males to be masculine in traits and heterosexual in orientation or else be viewed as feminine and socially unacceptable. The current study investigated the link between heterosexual masculinity and homophobia in 74 college males. Specifically, gender self-discrepancy (how well males think they fit cultural expectations of how they should act as a man), attribute importance (perceived im…
Women and Body Hair: Social Perceptions and Attitudes
This study examines college students' attitudes toward and perceptions of a woman with body hair as a function of respondent gender and feminist attitudes. Participants reacted to a video of a White woman either with or without visible leg and underarm hair. Results supported the hypothesis that a woman with body hair will be seen as less sexually and interpersonally attractive than the same woman without body hair. Specifically, the woman with b…
Student evaluations of college professors: When gender matters.
Student evaluations completed over a 4-year period at a private liberal arts college were analyzed for the effets of teacher gender, student gender, and divisional affiliation. A significant multivariate intereaction between teacher gender and student gender was found for each of the 4 semesters examined. Overall, the ratings of male professors appeared to be unaffected by student gender. In contrast, female professors tended to receive their hig…
What is she eating? The effects of meal size on impressions of a female eater
The Hairless Ideal: Women and Their Body Hair
A major component of “femininity” in the United States today is a hairless body, a norm that developed in the United States between 1915–1945. Little has been written regarding the development of this norm, and virtually no empirical research has been done to assess how universally ascribed to is this standard or why women actually remove their leg and underarm hair. More than 200 women from two national professional organizations responded to a …
Attitudes Toward Prostitution as a Function of Attitudes Toward Feminism in College Students: An Exploratory Study
Eighty-nine male and female undergraduates completed the Attitudes toward Feminism Scale and the author-devised Attitudes Toward Prostitution Scale, which contained five factors. Profeminist attitudes were related to three out of five factors. Respondents scoring in a profeminist direction were more likely to view prostitution as reflecting exploitation and subordination of women, less likely to believe women become prostitutes out of economic ne…
The effect of satisfaction and gender on self-evaluations of task performance
Academic achievement and attributions among college students: Effects of gender and sex typing
Student evaluations of college professors: Are female and male professors rated differently?
Evaluations of College Professors: Effects of Professors' Sex-Type, and Sex, and Students' Sex
Over 700 college students evaluated one of eight written profiles of a college professor. The descriptions varied by professors' sex and by professor sex-type (neutral/control, affective, instrumental, androgynous). Profiles were handed out in class to male and female students by regular instructors (experimenters). Professors described as high in affective qualities (the affective and androgynous professors) received the highest ratings on quest…
Correlates of Sex-Typing in Fiji
The effects of sex-typing on self-esteem, achievement orientation, and attitudes toward women were examined in Fiji using 600 secondary school and 240 university students. As Spence and Helmreich (1978) found in the U.S., sex-typing effects were strong on all variables, with Androgynous and Masculine students scoring highest on Self-esteem, Mastery, Work Orientation and Competitiveness, and Undifferentiated students scoring lowest. Sex-typing int…
Cultural variations in sex-typing
Ethnic Group Differences in Educational Achievement in Fiji
Over 600 Form IV (tenth grade) students in Fiji were tested on measures of achievement orientation, self-esteem, sex typing, and certain demographic variables to determine why ethnic Fijians have relatively low educational achievement compared to other ethnic groups. Although ethnic Fijians scored relatively high on Competitiveness, Mastery, and Work Orientation, and relatively low on Personal Unconcern and Self-Esteem, none of the variables adeq…
Predictors of Homophobia in Female College Students
Femininity, Sports, and Feminism: Developing a Theory of Physical Liberation
U.S. society continues to accept myths regarding the supposed weakness of women's bodies. Women's displays of physical power are often prevented or undermined, typically in ways centering on the concept of femininity. Increasing numbers of female athletes have not led to a true physical feminist liberation, one which would increase women's confidence, power, respect, wealth, enjoyment of physicality, and escape from rape and the fear of rape. Des…
Heterosexual Masculinity and Homophobia: A Reaction to the Self
Heterosexual masculinity is the cultural pressure exerted on males to be masculine in traits and heterosexual in orientation or else be viewed as feminine and socially unacceptable. The current study investigated the link between heterosexual masculinity and homophobia in 74 college males. Specifically, gender self-discrepancy (how well males think they fit cultural expectations of how they should act as a man), attribute importance (perceived im…
Troubles Talk”: Effects of Gender and Gender-Typing
Attitudes Toward Prostitution as a Function of Attitudes Toward Feminism in College Students: An Exploratory Study
Eighty-nine male and female undergraduates completed the Attitudes toward Feminism Scale and the author-devised Attitudes Toward Prostitution Scale, which contained five factors. Profeminist attitudes were related to three out of five factors. Respondents scoring in a profeminist direction were more likely to view prostitution as reflecting exploitation and subordination of women, less likely to believe women become prostitutes out of economic ne…
Best and Worst Professors: Gender Patterns in Students' Choices
Women and Body Hair: Social Perceptions and Attitudes
This study examines college students' attitudes toward and perceptions of a woman with body hair as a function of respondent gender and feminist attitudes. Participants reacted to a video of a White woman either with or without visible leg and underarm hair. Results supported the hypothesis that a woman with body hair will be seen as less sexually and interpersonally attractive than the same woman without body hair. Specifically, the woman with b…
What is she eating? The effects of meal size on impressions of a female eater
Perceptions of Relational and Physical Aggression among College Students: Effects of Gender of Perpetrator, Target, and Perceiver
This study examined gendered perceptions of relational and physical aggressive behaviors and personal experiences with both types of aggression. Prior research suggested that physical aggression by males and relational aggression by females would be perceived most negatively. College students (186 female, 128 male) rated the acceptability and harmfulness of aggression in scenarios in which type of aggression and perpetrator and target gender were…
Role-Model Influence: Effects of Sex and Sex-Role Attitude in College Students
College students, evenly divided by sex, rated the degree of influence of six or eight people on choice of a college and a career. Sex-role attitude was also assessed. In the first of two experiments, the sexes showed different patterns of influence as did the sex-role attitude groupings. Experiment 2, using only college seniors and matching the sexes on the attitude scale, again found that females were more influenced by female models in their c…
The Hairless Ideal: Women and Their Body Hair
A major component of “femininity” in the United States today is a hairless body, a norm that developed in the United States between 1915–1945. Little has been written regarding the development of this norm, and virtually no empirical research has been done to assess how universally ascribed to is this standard or why women actually remove their leg and underarm hair. More than 200 women from two national professional organizations responded to a …
Cultural variations in sex-typing
Gender Patterns in College Students' Choices of Their Best and Worst Professors
Students ( N = 175) at a large public university described their best and worst professors. Male students chose a female professor as “best” less often than expected whereas female students chose a female professor as often as expected. There were no gender differences in choice of “worst” professors. Descriptions of best and worst professors varied by professor and student gender. Overall, the male student-female professor pairing seemed most af…
Body Objectification, Social Pressure, and Disordered Eating Behavior in College Women: The Role of Sorority Membership
Social pressure to conform to the thin ideal is believed to play a decisive role in the development of eating disorders. In this field study at a college with only sophomore rush, 99 sorority women, 80 nonsorority women past their first year, and 86 first-year women completed three subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2 ( Garner, 1991 ), the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale ( McKinley & Hyde, 1996 ), and a measure of peer social pressu…
Predicting adjustment of U.S. college students studying abroad: Beyond the multicultural personality
Changes in Psychology of Women and Psychology of Gender Textbooks (1975–2010)
Academic achievement and attributions among college students: Effects of gender and sex typing
Ethnic Group Differences in Educational Achievement in Fiji
Over 600 Form IV (tenth grade) students in Fiji were tested on measures of achievement orientation, self-esteem, sex typing, and certain demographic variables to determine why ethnic Fijians have relatively low educational achievement compared to other ethnic groups. Although ethnic Fijians scored relatively high on Competitiveness, Mastery, and Work Orientation, and relatively low on Personal Unconcern and Self-Esteem, none of the variables adeq…
The effect of satisfaction and gender on self-evaluations of task performance
Role-Model Influence: Effects of Sex and Sex-Role Attitude in College Students
College students, evenly divided by sex, rated the degree of influence of six or eight people on choice of a college and a career. Sex-role attitude was also assessed. In the first of two experiments, the sexes showed different patterns of influence as did the sex-role attitude groupings. Experiment 2, using only college seniors and matching the sexes on the attitude scale, again found that females were more influenced by female models in their c…
Helping Behavior: Effects of Sex and Sex-Typing
Two male and two female experimenters asked 178 adult shoppers to fill out a questionnaire. Refusal data showed a cross-sex effect, with individuals helping other-sex experimenters more than same-sex experimenters. The effects of helper sex, helper sex-typing, helpee sex, and situation sex-typing were examined by means of questionnaires administered to the final sample of 120 adults. A non-sex-typed helping behavior was used. Results showed a sig…
Sex-Role Stereotypes: Traditions and Alternatives
Cultural variations in sex-typing
Ethnic Group Differences in Educational Achievement in Fiji
Over 600 Form IV (tenth grade) students in Fiji were tested on measures of achievement orientation, self-esteem, sex typing, and certain demographic variables to determine why ethnic Fijians have relatively low educational achievement compared to other ethnic groups. Although ethnic Fijians scored relatively high on Competitiveness, Mastery, and Work Orientation, and relatively low on Personal Unconcern and Self-Esteem, none of the variables adeq…
Correlates of Sex-Typing in Fiji
The effects of sex-typing on self-esteem, achievement orientation, and attitudes toward women were examined in Fiji using 600 secondary school and 240 university students. As Spence and Helmreich (1978) found in the U.S., sex-typing effects were strong on all variables, with Androgynous and Masculine students scoring highest on Self-esteem, Mastery, Work Orientation and Competitiveness, and Undifferentiated students scoring lowest. Sex-typing int…
Student evaluations of college professors: Are female and male professors rated differently?
Evaluations of College Professors: Effects of Professors' Sex-Type, and Sex, and Students' Sex
Over 700 college students evaluated one of eight written profiles of a college professor. The descriptions varied by professors' sex and by professor sex-type (neutral/control, affective, instrumental, androgynous). Profiles were handed out in class to male and female students by regular instructors (experimenters). Professors described as high in affective qualities (the affective and androgynous professors) received the highest ratings on quest…
Academic achievement and attributions among college students: Effects of gender and sex typing
The effect of satisfaction and gender on self-evaluations of task performance
Attitudes Toward Prostitution as a Function of Attitudes Toward Feminism in College Students: An Exploratory Study
Eighty-nine male and female undergraduates completed the Attitudes toward Feminism Scale and the author-devised Attitudes Toward Prostitution Scale, which contained five factors. Profeminist attitudes were related to three out of five factors. Respondents scoring in a profeminist direction were more likely to view prostitution as reflecting exploitation and subordination of women, less likely to believe women become prostitutes out of economic ne…
The Hairless Ideal: Women and Their Body Hair
A major component of “femininity” in the United States today is a hairless body, a norm that developed in the United States between 1915–1945. Little has been written regarding the development of this norm, and virtually no empirical research has been done to assess how universally ascribed to is this standard or why women actually remove their leg and underarm hair. More than 200 women from two national professional organizations responded to a …
What is she eating? The effects of meal size on impressions of a female eater
Student evaluations of college professors: When gender matters.
Student evaluations completed over a 4-year period at a private liberal arts college were analyzed for the effets of teacher gender, student gender, and divisional affiliation. A significant multivariate intereaction between teacher gender and student gender was found for each of the 4 semesters examined. Overall, the ratings of male professors appeared to be unaffected by student gender. In contrast, female professors tended to receive their hig…
Women and Body Hair: Social Perceptions and Attitudes
This study examines college students' attitudes toward and perceptions of a woman with body hair as a function of respondent gender and feminist attitudes. Participants reacted to a video of a White woman either with or without visible leg and underarm hair. Results supported the hypothesis that a woman with body hair will be seen as less sexually and interpersonally attractive than the same woman without body hair. Specifically, the woman with b…
The New Woman
Best and Worst Professors: Gender Patterns in Students' Choices
Predictors of Homophobia in Female College Students
Heterosexual Masculinity and Homophobia: A Reaction to the Self
Heterosexual masculinity is the cultural pressure exerted on males to be masculine in traits and heterosexual in orientation or else be viewed as feminine and socially unacceptable. The current study investigated the link between heterosexual masculinity and homophobia in 74 college males. Specifically, gender self-discrepancy (how well males think they fit cultural expectations of how they should act as a man), attribute importance (perceived im…
Perceptions of Body Hair on White Women: Effects of Labeling
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Troubles Talk”: Effects of Gender and Gender-Typing
Femininity, Sports, and Feminism: Developing a Theory of Physical Liberation
U.S. society continues to accept myths regarding the supposed weakness of women's bodies. Women's displays of physical power are often prevented or undermined, typically in ways centering on the concept of femininity. Increasing numbers of female athletes have not led to a true physical feminist liberation, one which would increase women's confidence, power, respect, wealth, enjoyment of physicality, and escape from rape and the fear of rape. Des…
Gender Patterns in College Students' Choices of Their Best and Worst Professors
Students ( N = 175) at a large public university described their best and worst professors. Male students chose a female professor as “best” less often than expected whereas female students chose a female professor as often as expected. There were no gender differences in choice of “worst” professors. Descriptions of best and worst professors varied by professor and student gender. Overall, the male student-female professor pairing seemed most af…
Perceptions of Relational and Physical Aggression among College Students: Effects of Gender of Perpetrator, Target, and Perceiver
This study examined gendered perceptions of relational and physical aggressive behaviors and personal experiences with both types of aggression. Prior research suggested that physical aggression by males and relational aggression by females would be perceived most negatively. College students (186 female, 128 male) rated the acceptability and harmfulness of aggression in scenarios in which type of aggression and perpetrator and target gender were…
Body Objectification, Social Pressure, and Disordered Eating Behavior in College Women: The Role of Sorority Membership
Social pressure to conform to the thin ideal is believed to play a decisive role in the development of eating disorders. In this field study at a college with only sophomore rush, 99 sorority women, 80 nonsorority women past their first year, and 86 first-year women completed three subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2 ( Garner, 1991 ), the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale ( McKinley & Hyde, 1996 ), and a measure of peer social pressu…
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