American and Chinese College Students’ Predictions of People’s Occupations, Housework Responsibilities, and Hobbies as a Function of Cultural and Gender Influences
American and Chinese College Students’ Predictions of People’s Occupations, Housework Responsibilities, and Hobbies as a Function of Cultural and Gender Influences
Author(s)
Zhou, Ling-Yi; Dawson, Michelle L; Herr, Candace L.; Stukas, Sarah K.
Abstract
Predictions of people’s occupations, housework responsibilities, and hobbies by American and Chinese college students reflected their sensitivity to the sex and gender information embedded in metaphors. Specific gender information, even when implicit, weighed more than general sex information, even when explicit, in the formation of social predictions.
