Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality
Adam Stanaland,
Sarah Gaither,
Anna Gassman‐Pines
et al.
Abstract:When adult men are made to feel gender‐atypical, they often lash out with aggression, particularly when they are pressured (vs. autonomously motivated) to be gender‐typical. Here, we examined the development of this phenomenon. Specifically, we provided a first experimental test of whether threatening adolescent boys’ perceived gender typicality elicits aggression as a function of their pressured (vs. autonomous) motivation to be gender‐typical. We also investigated whether this causal link emerges as a functi… Show more
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