Observers' impressions of sex role stereotyped dimensions of videotaped male and female cotherapists were examined in two conditions: male dominant pairs, and female dominant pairs. Findings indicated that sex role stereotyping was determined by behavior rather than biological sex, and that sex of experimenter can subtly affect sex role research…

After observing peer models display preferences toward various objects (subsequently sex-typed by experimenters), third and fourth graders registered their own preferences. Both boys and girls preferred same-sex objects to opposite-sex objects; but unlike boys, girls did not give lower priority to opposite-sex objects than to neutral ones.…

The five types of reasons researchers gave for or against choosing a particular sex for research subjects were: (1) subject availability; (2) presumed subject trait, characteristic, or response; (3) a favorable experimental condition; (4) wish to limit subject by experimenter interaction; (5) desire for comparability with previous research.…

Examined the impact of sex differences between interviewers and subjects on responses to a sensitive subject area--sex-role orientation--in telephone interviews. In support of hypothesis that respondents would react to their perceptions of interviewers' empathy, found that women gave significantly less traditional responses when interviewed by…

Measures 129 third and fourth graders' adjustment of their behavior to fit the attitudes of an experimenter after assessing their verbal preferences for gender-typed and cross-gender activities. Relative to the control condition, experimenters were able to reduce, but not increase, the proportion of cross-gender activities children engaged in.…