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Sex differences in social behavior : a social-role interpretation

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The analysis of sex differences in social behavior is presented as a new theory and a new method based on research published in “Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A New Theory and a New Method.”
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Contents: The Analysis of Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A New Theory and a New Method. Sex Differences in Helping Behavior. Sex Differences in Aggressive Behavior. Sex Differences in Other Social Behaviors. The Interpretation of Sex Differences in Social Behavior.

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Reactions to counterstereotypic behavior: the role of backlash in cultural stereotype maintenance.

TL;DR: A model of the role of backlash in cultural stereotype maintenance from the standpoint of both perceivers and actors shows that gender deviants who feared backlash resorted to strategies designed to avoid it, suggesting that backlash rewards perceivers psychologically.
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The Social Construction of Status Value: Gender and Other Nominal Characteristics

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe micro-macro processes through which simple structural conditions cause a nominal characteristic such as gender or race to acquire independent status value, and combine the two theories to show where the nominal characteristic is likely to be connected with such situational beliefs, how this connection is affected by transfer and diffusion among types of interactants, and how this process can produce consensual beliefs in the characteristic's status value.
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Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adults: An Updated Meta‐Analytic Review

TL;DR: A meta-analytic review of 232 effect sizes showed that attitudes were more negative toward older adults than younger adults as mentioned in this paper, and that perceived age differences were largest for age stereotypes and smallest for evaluations.
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The gender system and interaction

TL;DR: Men and women interact extensively within families and households and in other role relations as mentioned in this paper, which raises important questions about how interaction creates experiences that confirm, or potentially could undermine, the beliefs about gender difference and inequality that underlie the gender system.