DOMINANCEAS A FUNCTION OF SEX-ROLE EXPECTATION OR PERSONALITY TYPE IN FEMALE-MALE INTERACTIONS By

This study investigates the power of the sex-role social norm in determining dominance: is dominance determined by personality ',type', (from Myers-Briggs) or by the sex-rcle expectation? Thinking (T) and feeling (F) types were paired, including all possible combinations of sex and T-F. Thirty-two dyads, 16 opposite sex and 16 same sex, discussed a thinking and a feeling problem. With opposite-sex dyads (a) males talked more than females on the T task and (b) feeling types talked more than thinking types on the F task. With same-sex dyads T types tended to talk more than F types on both tasks; this was especially true for T females on the T task, and even more so on the F task. It was concluded that dominance behavior was dependent on the interaction between (a) whether S was with same or opposite sex, (b) personality type, and (c) nature of task. (Author) * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document.