Abstract
96 female and 96 male college students evaluated a briefly described stimulus person on 20 7-point bipolar scales which described personality traits and professional performance characteristics. Each subject rated one of 16 adults who was described as either female or male, either young or middle-aged, and either never-married, divorced, widowed, or married. Females and males were perceived similarly on nearly all characteristics. Married individuals were evaluated more favorably on several traits than were all groups of unmarried individuals, regardless of sex or age. Middle-aged women were perceived more positively than young women on some characteristics, whereas men were rated similarly regardless of age.
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