PSYC 3300 Lecture 22: Personality Psycholgy sex and gender
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Behavioral and social learning theorists attribute differences to a life-long process of sex-role socialization. Gender= traits defined by a society, psychological. Glick (1988): looks at extent to which gender of their resume gets them more interviews. Resumes sent to 211 places (ken or kate norris). Traits for ken were masculine, traits for kate feminine. 2 interactions: traits and job, sex and job. Masculine type resume matched with masculine type job. Cramer, million & perreault: preference for males to pay certain instruments and females to play others. However, there are physical and sound preference constraints. Females were not judged any differently for playing a masculine instrument.