75 graduate students [43 women (M age, 37.2 yr.) and 32 men (M age, 36.5 yr.)] registered for educational psychology were administered a questionnaire in which they were asked to express their views on whether the payment of bridewealth aspect of the marriage contract implies that the wife is a husband's property. 87 and 84% of both men and women (89% of those married and 80% of those single) disagreed with the view that bridewealth signifies that the wife is a husband's property.
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