Abstract
This paper is a replication of the author's 1969 study, “Sex Attribution to Hypothetical Persons Described by Adjective Trait Lists.” In both studies the trait lists were made up of four masculine traits, four feminine traits, four neutral traits, and four traits which were half masculine and half feminine. In the 1969 study most of the figures described, 81%, were male. In the intervening years, the feminist movement, emphasis on changing sexist elements in language, and similar social phenomena influenced the author to hypothesize that female figures would be more highly represented in a replication. In the repetition of the study 25 years later, 53% of the responses were of female figures, 26% were male figures, and 21% were either male or female.
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