Sex-role and opposite-sex interpersonal attraction.
Androgynous, traditional, and undifferentiated male and female subjects indicated their attraction to three opposite-sex strangers who were described as having an androgynous, traditional, and undifferentiated sex-role. Subjects' ability to describe the sex-roles of the strangers was also measured. Androgynous strangers were most preferred, undifferentiated strangers least preferred. The least preferred undifferentiated strangers' sex-role was most accurately described. Subjects were least successful in describing the androgynous sex-role.
Lombardo
J P
JP
Department of Psychology, State University of New York, Cortland 13045.
Francis
P L
PL
Brown
S
S
D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012928:Social Desirability