| Abstract: | 50 male and 50 female undergraduate judges evaluated statements (drawn from the MMPI Mf and L scales) that were attributed to male and female seriously disturbed psychiatric patients but that were not symptomatic of disturbance. When a male judge rated a female patient who expressed an attitude conventionally associated with a masculine sex role, she was evaluated as more disturbed than if she had described herself neutrally or in terms of a feminine stereotype. No similar bias occurred among female judges or in evaluations of male patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
