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Playing the Gender Card

Hidden Brain

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Men Are Defending Something That's Fragile

Men's social status is more hierarchically organized than women's is. Men are kind of or interested in, or motivated to attain social status. And that translates into a concern about whether one's seen as a real man or not. This chronic anxiety comes through in one of jenifer's experiments. We have men do a stereotypically feminine task, like braiding a manikin's hair. In another condition, they braid three strands of thick rope.

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