Manning up: Threatened men compensate by disavowing feminine preferences and embracing masculine attributes

Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 218-227

  Cheryan, Sapna ^a   Cameron, Jessica Schwartz ^b   Katagiri, Zach ^b   Monin, Benoît ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assertion; Distancing; Gender; Identity threat; Masculinity; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940394784     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000239     Document Type: Article

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