@article{ref1,
title="The influence of sex-role expectations on the perception of touch",
journal="Sex roles",
year="1981",
author="Forden, Carie",
volume="7",
number="9",
pages="889-894",
abstract="Eighty-seven male and female university students were shown one of three videotapes of a male and a female having a conversation. The three videotapes were identical, except for the beginning and end, where in one condition the male touched the female on the shoulder, in another the female touched the male, in the last neither touched. After they had watched a videotape, subjects were asked to rate the male and the female on 17 descriptive adjectives. Touch condition significantly changed ratings on two clusters of adjectives: the &quot;dominant&quot; cluster for the female; and the &quot;passive&quot; cluster for the male. The female was seen as most &quot;dominant&quot; (stereotypically male) when she touched, the male as most &quot;passive&quot; (stereotypically female) when he was touched. These results are discussed in terms of Henley's (1977) theory of touch as a power symbol.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0360-0025",
doi="10.1007/BF00290972",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00290972"
}