Citation

Dworkin RJ, Dworkin AG. Sex Roles 1983; 9(1): 49-57.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00303109

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study explored conditions under which initially multidimensional attitudes change and coalesce into unidimensionality. One hundred twenty-one college students participated in a pretest-posttest control group experimental design involving a prejudice reduction simulation. One group was exposed to overt statements and action that supported traditional male dominance. This group exhibited significantly more modern sex-role attitudes than did the other groups; and the former's attitudes shifted to unidimensionality while the others' attitudes did not. The data also suggest independence between techniques that produce racial/liberalism and sexrole attitude modernity.