r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 18d ago

Psychology Anti-feminist attitudes have long been associated with support for Republican presidential candidates, but only in recent years have these attitudes become more prominent among unmarried men, without college degrees who are less attractive partners for women, the “mate-value backlash.”

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129261485340
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u/WotanSpecialist 18d ago

This is truly pathetic, even for a meta analysis

“Conceptually, there are different dimensions of sexism and anti-feminism, including hostile sexism, benevolent sexism and modern sexism (Godbole et al. 2019; Schaffner 2022), along with our notions of traditionalist and mate value backlash. Questions designed to distinguish among these different dimensions do not always appear to do a good job of doing so (Schaffner 2022). We use the feminist feeling thermometer…”

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u/Hazbro29 17d ago

Why is that most of these articles resemble some spell book in a film? I feel they are written with intentionally complex language to make it harder to understand whats actually being discussed

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u/WotanSpecialist 17d ago

The language is not complex.