• DOI:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1986.tb00747.x
Corpus ID: 146308947

Sex Differences in Conformity: Status and Gender Role Interpretations

@article{Eagly1986SexDI,
  title={Sex Differences in Conformity: Status and Gender Role Interpretations},
  author={A. Eagly and C. Chrvala},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={1986},
  volume={10},
  pages={203 - 220}
}

A. Eagly, C. Chrvala

Published 1986

Psychology

Psychology of Women Quarterly

The experiment examines status and gender role explanations of the tendency for women to conform more than men in group pressure settings. Subjects believed they were assigned to groups containing two males and two females in addition to themselves and received these other group members' opinions, which were represented as deviating from the opinions that subjects had given earlier. Subjects then gave their opinions with the other group members either having or not having surveillance over… CONTINUE READING

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