Resistance or Cooperation? Actor and Partner Effects of Hostile and Benevolent Sexism on Observed Behavior in Couples’ Interactions
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| ID | 21453722 |
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| Autores | Nickola C Overall (0000-0002-9703-4383, University of Auckland, autor correspondente), Nina Waddell (0000-0002-0975-439X, University of Auckland), Eri Sasaki (0000-0003-4848-1088, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Myfanwy Christensen (University of Auckland), Valerie T Chang (0000-0002-4916-4677, University of Auckland) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Páginas | 1461672251372669-1461672251372669 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-11-24 |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0146-1672 • E-ISSN: 1552-7433 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01461672251372669 |
| PMID | 41277823 |
| OpenAlex | W4416575098 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 47 |
Hostile sexism evokes women’s resistance necessitating benevolent sexism to promote cross-gender cooperation. Addressing inconsistent, primarily self-report evidence for ambivalent sexism theory principles, we test the actor and partner effects of sexist attitudes on behaviors exhibited within heterosexual couples’ interactions ( N = 855 dyadic interactions). Showing that men’s hostile sexism likely incites resistance, men’s hostile sexism predicted more hostile and less responsive behavior by men and their women partners. Providing new behavioral evidence that benevolent sexism may promote heterosexual cooperation, men’s benevolent sexism predicted less hostile and more responsive behavior by men and their partners. Illustrating that benevolent sexism is also likely to have costs for women and men, women’s benevolent sexism predicted more hostile behavior by women and their partners, particularly when men partners were low in benevolent or high in hostile sexism. We emphasize the importance of examining how sexist attitudes influence actor and partner behavior across different contexts
Ambivalence · Hostility · Partner effects · Prejudice (legal term) · Resistance (ecology) · Test (biology) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics
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