When Contact Correlates with Prejudice: Adolescents' Romantic Relationship Experience Predicts Greater Benevolent Sexism in Boys and Hostile Sexism in Girls

Sex Roles

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 214-225

  de Lemus, Soledad ^a   Moya, Miguel ^a   Glick, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Ambivalent sexism; Close relationships; Discrimination; Romantic experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955716023     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9786-2     Document Type: Article

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