128 subjects won or lost to a confederate on sex-appropriate or inappropriate tasks. Sex of confederate, subject, and experimenter was also varied factorially. Defense of intellectual territory was operationalized as shock administered to the confederate in an aggression paradigm following loss at a sex-appropriate task. The concept received support for male subjects having male experimenters. An association of masculinity with the differentiation of aggressive response was also noted.
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