PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Casual Sex, Surgency, Effect Size
30 Mar 2016
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Sex diference: signiicant diferences in biological men and women on a given variable. Gender: the social interpretaion of being masculine, feminine or somewhere in between. Gender stereotypes: beliefs people have in respects to diferences between men and women. Efect size (d: diference in standard deviaion units. +/-. 80 = large: posiive d = men higher, negaive d = women higher. Even with a large sex diference, it does not apply to all individuals. Ability to not act on impulses or urges. Extraversion: women slightly higher on gregariousness (d=-. 15, men slightly higher on acivity level (d=. 09, men moderately higher on asseriveness (d=. 50) Agreeableness: women tend to be higher on trusing (d=-. 25) and tender-mindedness (d=-. 97, women smile more than men (d=-. 60, men more physically aggressive (moderate to large d) Conscieniousness: women slightly higher on order (d=-. 13) Neuroicism: men and women similar on impulsiveness (d=. 06, women higher on anxiety/sadness (d=-. 28)
