The evil that men do : manhood threats increase unethical decision-making

In order to maintain manhood, men engage in prescriptive behavior and avoid\ud proscriptive behavior. Yet, will manhood threats increase prescriptive behavior seeking\ud even at the expense of ethics? In Study 1, men told they had a feminine personality\ud (compared to a masculine personality) had an increase in unethical decision-making,\ud /(92) = 2.28, p = .025, d= .47. In Study 2, men placed in a low status (compared to high\ud status) position also had an increase in unethical decision-making, F (l, 193) = 9.94, p ~\ud .002, rj2p = .049. In Study 3, both status and gendered personality were simultaneously\ud manipulated to determine the relative strength of each. Results suggest that the feminine\ud personality threat increased unethical decision-making F( 1,193) = 5.14,p = .024, rj2p=\ud .026, more so than the low status threat F(l, 193) = 2.85,/? = .093, ifp= .015. My results\ud therefore suggest that men will seek prescriptive behavior even at the expense of ethics,\ud and that gendered personality threats are stronger than status threats to produce this effect