Do People Differentially Recall Sexual Information According to Actor Gender? Extending the Confirmation Bias Paradigm.
The sexual double standard (SDS) is the phenomenon whereby sexually active men are evaluated more positively than sexually active women (Marks & Fraley, 2005). The SDS is a well-known phenomenon in contemporary Western society (Endendijk et al., 2020), and evidence suggests that people have a confir...
| Published in: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 902 - 917 |
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