Predictions of opposite-sex attitudes concerning gender-related social issues

Abstract

Men and women college students indicated the extent of their agreement with statements concerning sex-role stereotyping, adversarial sexual beliefs, sexual conservatism, acceptance of interpersonal violence, and rape-myth acceptance, and they also predicted the opinion of a typical member of the opposite sex. In all comparisons, the opinions of the men and the women were not significantly different. Although the men were very accurate in predicting the women’s opinions, the women consistently predicted that the men were more negatively biased than the actual opinions expressed by the men would indicate.