Ratings of vocational competence, marriageability, and interpersonal success were made by male and female subjects of a stimulus person described in a one-page, single-spaced biography. The results indicated that both men and women perceived the female attorney as being the most vocationally competent. (Author)

American college students (N=77) enrolled in a semester-at-sea program rated four target groups before and after exposure in their own national settings, on a rating instrument designed to discriminate between descriptive and evaluative judgments in stereotyping. The greatest change was in the stereotypic profile of the English. (Author)

A recent study conducted at the University of Minnesota indicates that students may be adopting a new definition of mental health--one in which traditional sex-role stereotypes are abandoned in favor of more human and flexible standards. (Author)

This paper is concerned with the relationship of three areas: sex roles, values, and career decision making. The first section is a background statement, briefly reviewing relevant literature to document values in relation to career decision making. The second section examines definitions of values and how values are related to sex roles, both…

Male (N=80) and female (N=80) subjects who were matched for age and GPA were presented with either a competently or incompetently worded version of a 750-word excerpt from a journal article. The article was attributed to either Joan or John Maxwell. Subjects rated each article on scales for: professional competence of the author; writing style;…

A content analysis of 53 books that have won the Newbery Medal for Adolescent Literature was carried out to determine what images of older people are presented through these books. The analysis disclosed while older people are adequately represented numerically, they are underdeveloped and consistently given peripheral roles within the plot.…

The effect of presentation labels upon subjects' evaluation of behavior modification was investigated in two experiments. Subjects were two groups of undergraduate and graduate students required to evaluate identical administrations of a lesson under different presentation labels. (Author/YJ)

THE USE OF ETHNIC LABELS AND THEIR MEANING TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ISRAEL WAS INVESTIGATED IN THREE STUDIES. THE FIRST, EMPLOYING SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHODOLOGY, EXAMINED STEOEOTYPES AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION. RESULTS SHOW THAT ISRAELI YOUTHS--(1) EXPERIENCE THEIR ISRAELI SUBIDENTITY AS MORE MEANINGFUL AND FAVORED THAN THEIR JEWISH…

This study considered children in kindergarten, first, and second grade to determine whether boys and girls differ in attitudes toward school when they first begin, and whether the relationship between boys' and girls' attitude changes with time. Results challenge the belief that girls have a better attitude toward school. (Author)

To test whether the traditionally inferior performance in mathematics of girls relative to boys is the result of sex stereotyping, 2,000 sixth- to twelfth-grade boys and girls were administered tests in mathematics aptitude and tests to measure the strength of sex-role stereotyping. The results showed that at all levels subjects displayed no…

Investigated four traditionally male and four traditionally female occupations on dimensions which people use to judge prestige or importance of a job. Results indicated a tendancy for subjects to give lower ratings to workers in nontraditional jobs. (Author)

This study extended those of Goldberg (1968) and Pheterson, Kiesler, and Goldberg (1971). College students (57 females and 39 males) were given booklets containing articles from fields of traditional male, female, and neutral sexual association for evaluation. Authors of the articles were portrayed as either males or females, and as either…

This research is concerned with the stereotypes of gifted children held by average ability students and by teachers. The results of this study show that gifted boys are viewed positively by their age-mates, whereas gifted girls are quite disliked. Attitudes were elicited from educators familiar with gifted students, and from educators with no…

This report summarizes one year's efforts to examine sex role stereotypes in elementary and secondary education. It takes an empirical approach to determining how sex role stereotypes are manifested in schools. Traditional techniques of literature review are used to collect data, but the real emphasis is on involving individuals and organizations…

Differences in children's acceptance of occupational roles traditionally sex-typed by society were explored for a sample of 270 elementary school children. The degree of sex typing was high among all subjects. Children at each age level viewed occupational roles for both men and women similarly to the traditional sex-typed role views. (Author)