Cell Phones, Clothing, and Sex
First Impressions of Power using Older African Americans as Stimuli
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13655817 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Ro (0000-0002-9645-7691, Columbia University), Allison Ross (Columbia University), Kathleen Barker (Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 879-882 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.2003.93.3.879 |
| PMID | 14723458 |
| OpenAlex | W2014268024 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Sex, material possessions, and race have long been associated with prestige or status in American society, yet little research has examined this idea. Little is known about the effect of cell phones on first impressions. In a 2 (cell phone: present, absent) x 2 (clothing: jacket, no jacket) x 2 (sex) between-subjects design, 160 women from a predominantly Black college rated stimuli of older, African Americans on 15 items measuring perceived power on three power subscales: expert, legitimate, and coercive. Multivariate analysis of variance showed a 3-way interaction for clothing, cell phone, and sex of stimulus person
Clothing · Developmental psychology · Multivariate analysis of variance · Phone · Power (physics · Prestige · Race (biology · Sociology · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |