How sex puts you in gendered shoes: Sexuality-priming leads to gender-based self-perception and behavior

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 176-193

  Hundhammer, Tanja ^a   Mussweiler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dominance; Gender; Self perception; Sex priming; Submissiveness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AWARENESS; CUES; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871694553     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028121     Document Type: Article

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