Traditional identity contents predict women’s amusement with sexist jokes about men through benevolent but not hostile sexism
Karolina Koszałkowska,
Monika Wróbel
Abstract:Two preregistered studies (N = 679) tested the links between women’s gender identity and their amusement with sexist jokes targeting men. We hypothesized that the interaction between the strength (i.e., level of in-group identification) and contents (traditional/progressive) of women’s gender identity would be associated with their amusement with jokes targeting men and that this relationship would be mediated by sexism toward men. Although Study 1 provided no support for this hypothesis, we found positive ass… Show more
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