| Abstract: | Partners in 61 mixed-sex dyads, each classified as high or low in dispositional dominance and grouped in 4 dominance combinations (high–high, low–high, high–low, and low–low), first interacted to complete an audiotaped verbal task from which 5 behavioral measures of dominance were obtained and then selected a leader for a machine repair task. Prior task interactions diminished status differences between male and female partners, allowing high dominant women paired with low dominant men to become leader 71% of the time, far more often than previous studies have found for this pairing. Also, it was found that the level of dominance expression for these high dominant women was influenced by their male partner's dominance level: High dominant women paired with high dominant men assumed the leadership role only 31% of the time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
