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Feminism and mate preference: a study on relational cognitive dissonance

dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.contributor.departmentGraduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.kuauthorCemalcılar, Zeynep
dc.contributor.kuauthorKorkmaz, Arın
dc.contributor.kuauthorYurtsever, Aslı
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Social Sciences and Humanities
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteGRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T23:57:36Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractEvolution proposes differences in mate preferences between the two sexes. Females prefer mates who can invest in them and their offspring. In the contemporary era, gender ideologies are not always in line with these premises, but desires still could be. The conflict between ideology and desire could trigger cognitive dissonance in contemporary feminist women. We recruited 246 women online to investigate the occurrence of dissonance based on feminist attitudes, and whether dissonance reduction strategies (i.e., behavior change, cognition change) differed based on their preference for consistency. Results showed that highly feminist women who desire sexist men experienced more cognitive dissonance (operationalized as negative affect) than women lower in feminist attitudes. Preference for consistency moderated cognitive dissonance's association with behavior, but not cognition change.
dc.description.indexedbyScopus
dc.description.indexedbyWOS
dc.description.openaccessYES
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.volume168
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.paid.2020.110297
dc.identifier.issn0191-8869
dc.identifier.quartileQ2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85088874982
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/15324
dc.keywordsCognitive dissonance
dc.keywordsFeminism
dc.keywordsMate preference
dc.keywordsPreference for consistency
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofPersonality and Individual Differences
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.titleFeminism and mate preference: a study on relational cognitive dissonance
dc.typeJournal Article
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