Sex-role stereotypes for internal-external control and interpersonal trust.

Undergraduates completed Rotter's Internal-External Control Scale and the Interpersonal Trust Scale and then retook the tests as if they were "supermale" and "superfemale" (i.e., extremely masculine and feminine). Sex-role stereotypes of males as more internal and less trusting were found to exist for both sexes, but Ss' own scores diverged considerably from their same-sex stereotypes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)