Does Bem´s Psychological Androgyny map on gender or sex differences in faces?
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2019-03Resumen
Sarah Bem introduced the concept of androgyny, which disconnects sex and gender
and includes a continuous representation of gender. What has not been investigated so far is
whether the particular qualities postulated by Bem are qualities of gender rather than sex-associated
traits. In the present study, the reversed correlation task as a data driven approach was used to
determine the implicit gender stereotypes across the faces of men and women and to create an ideal
protoype of feminine and masculine faces. Then it was measured which impressions these faces
evoke. Two studies and a pilot study (N=514) were conducted. The present study showed that
gender and not sex is crucial for the attribution of social characteristics. Pictures of stereotypical
faces have been found to be highly suitable for measuring masculinity and femininity. The
continuous properties of masculinity and femininity, as outlined by Bem (1974), are still
appropriate to differentiate between the stereotypi...
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Reversed correlation task