To examine the effects of verbal cues on fantasy of fear of success, four cue sentences, consisting of a combination of the hero's sex and sex-linked jobs, were administered to college students. The percentages of fear of success in both men and women were significantly higher than in the traditionally incongruous relations between hero and job than in the congruous relations.
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