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The Effects of Courtesy and Payment on Impressions of a Couple Out to Dinner

The Effects of Courtesy and Payment on Impressions of a Couple Out to Dinner. T. William Altermatt, Julie Witherup, and Angie Miller Hanover College. Introduction. Ambivalent Sexism (Glick & Fiske, 1996) Hostile Sexism Benevolent Sexism Complementary Gender Differentiation

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The Effects of Courtesy and Payment on Impressions of a Couple Out to Dinner

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  1. The Effects of Courtesy and Payment on Impressions of a Couple Out to Dinner T. William Altermatt, Julie Witherup, and Angie Miller Hanover College

  2. Introduction • Ambivalent Sexism (Glick & Fiske, 1996) • Hostile Sexism • Benevolent Sexism • Complementary Gender Differentiation • Heterosexual Intimacy • Protective Paternalism • Chivalry: norms for men protecting and providing for women

  3. The Chivalry Debate • Those in favor... • Gesture of respect • Acknowledgement of feminine “virtue” • Those opposed... • Feminine role in chivalry: passive recipient • Undermines women’s independence • Empirical question: What are the effects of chivalry on people’s perceptions of the male provider and the female recipient?

  4. Materials & Procedure • 3-minute videotape of man and woman going out to dinner • 2 factors manipulated: • Courtesy • Man is courteous • No courtesy • Payment • Man pays • Couple splits cost • 2 x 2 between-subjects design; 4 possible video clips

  5. Materials & Procedure • 107-item Questionnaire • Male & female characters’ • Personality traits (e.g., intelligent, kind, sincere) • Motivations (e.g., manipulate or control other person) • Evaluations of characters • E.g., How much do you think you share values with the character? • Relationship between the characters • E.g., How much does he like her? • E.g., How much does she respect him? • Attitude toward chivalry (10-item scale) • E.g., A man should give up his seat to a woman if the bus is crowded.

  6. Participants • N = 62 introductory psychology students • 65% female • 97% White • Age 18-25 (mean 19.1)

  7. Scales • Warm (8 items, alpha = .89) • E.g., Friendly, generous, genuine, kind, sincere, likeable • Good impression (3 items, alpha = .67 M, .58 F) • Motivated to increase liking, make favorable impression, act appropriately • Agentic (6 items, alpha = .79 M, .69 F) • Ambitious, assertive, dominant, independent, self-reliant, self-sufficient • Attitude toward Chivalry (10 items, alpha = .90)

  8. Effects of Courtesy on Male Character p < .01 p < .01 p < .01 p < .03

  9. Effects of Courtesy on Female Character p < .05

  10. Interaction p<.02 Interaction p<.02 Effects of Payment

  11. Effects of Payment p < .02

  12. Discussion • Concerns about chivalry • Negative gender stereotypes • Restrictive gender roles • Findings suggest • Different ways to display chivalry (e.g, courtesy and payment) • Courtesy good, payment (sometimes) bad

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