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People react more positively to female- than to male-favoring sex differences: A direct replication of a counterintuitive finding

Steve Stewart-Williams Orcid Logo, Xiu Ling Wong, Chern Yi Marybeth Chang, Andrew Thomas Orcid Logo

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Swansea University Author: Andrew Thomas Orcid Logo

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We report a direct replication of our earlier study looking at how people react to research on sex differences depending on whether the research puts men or women in a better light. Three-hundred-and-three participants read a fictional popular-science article about fabricated research finding that w...

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