Who has the final word? Sex, race, and dominance behavior.
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 38 (1) , 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.38.1.1
Abstract
Investigated the effects of sex and race on dominance behavior as a function of a challenger's sex and race. Dominance was defined as the number of verbal challenges against an S's picture choice that an S withstood. Each of 128 undergraduate Ss and a confederate recorded individual preferences and joint decisions for the more attractive picture of 20 pairs of pictures. The number of challenges an S sustained each time a disagreement occurred regarding the more attractive picture of a pair was recorded. Results support the theory of status characteristics when Ss participated with White confederates: Black females were more dominant than White females and Black males, and White males were more dominant than Black males. With a Black confederate, however, Black males became significantly more dominant, whereas the behavior of the other 3 groups did not change. All Ss withstood significantly fewer challenges from females than from males. Results suggest that the characteristics of group members as well as the characteristics of a single person must be examined to obtain an accurate picture of mixed-sex or biracial interactions. (25 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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