Maturational and Societal Changes in the Sexual Double-Standard: A Panel Analysis (1967-1971; 1970-1974)

Ferrell, Mary Z.; Tolone, William L.; Walsh, Robert H.

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“…The use of vignettes in survey questionnaires that manipulate offender and victim characteristics has been a longstanding feature of research on jury and judge decision-making (e.g., Ferrell et al 1977;Robinson et al 1994;Rose and Prell 1955;Steffensmeier 1977;Stephan 1975;Tsoudis and Smith-Lovin 1998). However, these surveys and experiments generally involve the use of college student subjects, posing a problem for the usefulness and generalizability of these studies.…”

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Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Dilks

McGrimmon

Thye

2015

Social Science Research

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This research uses status characteristics theory to expand our knowledge of the effects of status variables (e.g., race, education) and emotional displays on the antecedents of sentencingevaluations of offender dangerousness and offense seriousness. We present a theoretical formulation that combines three areas of status characteristics research -reward expectations, individual evaluative settings and valued personal characteristics. The result is a quantitative measure that aggregates relative differences in demographic and emotional characteristics between offenders and their victims. The significance of this expectation advantage measure (e) in predicting evaluations of offender dangerousness and offense severity is tested using data from a vignette study. We find empirical support that expectation advantage significantly predicts these sentencing antecedents but not sentencing outcomes directly. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for future status and criminological research.

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Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Dilks

McGrimmon

Thye

2015

Social Science Research

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“…For example, if a study explicitly requires participants to rate the appropriateness of certain sexual behaviors for men, immediately followed by identical questions regarding women (e.g., Ferrel, Tolone, & Walsh, 1977;Sheeran, Spears, Abraham, & Abrams, 1996;Sprecher & Hatfield, 1996), participants may try to answer either in an egalitarian manner or in a manner that is consistent with what they believe to be the norm. Given that many people have preconceived notions about the sexual double standard (Milhausen & Herold, 1999, it is important to minimize demand characteristics when researching attitudes toward sexuality.…”

Section: Sexual Double Standard Research Methodologymentioning

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The Sexual Double Standard: Fact or Fiction?

2005

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In contemporary society it is widely believed that men are socially rewarded for sexual activity, whereas women are derogated for sexual activity. To determine whether a sexual double standard exists, both undergraduate (n = 144) and Internet (n = 8,080) participants evaluated experimental targets who were described as either male or female and as having a variable number of sexual partners. Targets were more likely to be derogated as the number of sexual partners increased, and this effect held for both male and female targets. These results suggest that, although people do evaluate others as a function of sexual activity, people do not necessarily hold men and women to different sexual standards.

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“…Since this earlier period "attitudes toward female sexuality in general, and premarital sexuality in particular, have become increasingly permissive in the United States" (Reiss and Lee, 1988, p. 157). Comparisons across studies conducted at different times (e.g., Darling et al, 1984) and across different cohorts of students from the same universities (e.g., Ferrell et al, 1977;King et al, 1977;Sherwin and Corbett, 1985) have found that premarital sexual standards have become more liberal. Today, most young men and women believe it is acceptable to have sexual relations before marriage--for reasons of affection and/or pleasure.…”

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“…This is the primary way in which the existence of the double standard has been investigated. Results based on comparisons between a male version of a sexual permissiveness scale and a female version show very little evidence for a double standard (e.g., DeLamater and MacCorquodale, 1979;Ferrell et al, 1977;Sprecher, 1989;Sprecher et al, 1988). The effects of other target characteristics, including age and personal relevance, have also been studied.…”

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“…This approach was used because the ratio of males to females varied across the three societies. We also controlled for age, a demographic variable that has been found in some studies to be related to sexual permissiveness (e.g., DeLamater and MacCorquodale, 1979;Ferrell et al, 1977). (The mean age was significantly different across the three samples and was significantly different between genders.)…”

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Premarital sexual standards among U.S. college students: Comparison with Russian and Japanese students

Sprecher

Hatfield

1996

Arch Sex Behav

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The study of the sexual permissiveness of young adults has been popular topic in sociology and social psychology, especially since the empirical and theoretical work of Reiss. We extended previous research on premarital sexual standards by examining the degree of sexual permissiveness and the endorsement of the traditional double standard in a large sample of young adults in the United States (N = 1043). In addition, comparative data were collected from young adults in two other countries: Russia (N = 401) and Japan (N = 223). American subjects expressed more acceptance of premarital sex than did the Russian and Japanese subjects. Men were more sexually permissive than women in the U.S. and in Russia but not in Japan. The degree to which the double standard was endorsed also depended on culture and gender. Russian subjects were more likely to endorse the double standard than Japanese and American subjects. However, American men were most likely to endorse the traditional double standard concerning sex early in the dating relationship.

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Maturational and Societal Changes in the Sexual Double-Standard: A Panel Analysis (1967-1971; 1970-1974)

Cited by 30 publications

References 6 publications

Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

Status, emotional displays, and the relationally-based evaluation of criminals and their behavior

The Sexual Double Standard: Fact or Fiction?

Premarital sexual standards among U.S. college students: Comparison with Russian and Japanese students

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