Barb is investigating how threats to manhood and womanhood affect men and women respectively. She conducts an experiment where at a certain point male participates receive feedback that they are not “real men.” Similarly, female participants received feedback that they are not “real women.” She then measures participants’ anxiety levels. Predict what effect this feedback will have for the male and female participants according to the precarious manhood hypothesis. Explain why the precarious manhood hypothesis leads to your prediction.
What will be an ideal response?
The precarious manhood hypothesis would predict that the feedback threatening men’s manhood would increase their anxiety levels significantly more than the feedback threatening women’s “womanhood” would increase their anxiety levels. This is because according to the precarious manhood hypothesis, there is a cross-cultural tendency to define manhood as hard to earn, easy to lose, and requiring continual validation. Whereas womanhood is more commonly conceptualized as a stable social status.
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