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Explaining Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A Meta-Analytic Perspective
Abstract
Recent meta-analytic reviews have documented that the sexes typically differ in a variety of social behaviors, including aggression, helping, nonverbal behavior, and various aspects of inter-action in task-oriented groups. In general, these findings are consistent with a social-role theory of sex differences, which emphasizes the causal impact of gender roles-that is, of people's beliefs about the behavior that is appropriate for each sex. To move beyond the demonstration of consistency between role expectations and social behavior, meta-analyses have examined the moderators and mediators specified by this theoretical model The outcomes of these moderator and mediator analyses are illustrated from several meta-analyses of gender and social behavior. These meta-analyses thus show that quantitative reviewing is not limited to the mere summarizing of research findings; the technique also allows reviewers to examine the plausibility of theories that are relevant to these findings.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Eagly, A. H., & Wood, W.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1991-06
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 306-315
- ISSN
- 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7433
- OpenAlex
- W2015289231
- Cited by
- 874
- References
- 52
- FWCI
- 23.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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