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Explaining Age and Gender Effects on Attitudes toward Sexist Language

Bowling Green State University, jparks{at}bgsu.edu

Mary Ann Roberton

Bowling Green State University

This study examined perspective taking, empathic concern, and attitude toward women as potential mediators of age and gender effects on college students’ attitudes toward sexist language. Perspective taking fully mediated the small age effect found in men. Attitude toward women partially mediated the gender effect, reducing it by 51%.Empathic concern mediated neither age nor gender effects.

Key Words: sexist language • attitudes toward women • neosexism • perspective taking • empathic concern

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