A RESPONSE LATENCY INVESTIGATION OF THE GENDER SCHEMA

The relationship between sextype and gender schematicity in college wo men was examined using a response latency measure. Results suggest tha t women are gender schematic for items both endorsed and rejected as s elf-relevant, regardless of level of feminine or masculine sextyping. Results do not suggest that one need be sextyped in order to be gender schematic. It is possible that in addition to processing information on the basis of sex-linked associations, individuals must value the en coded stereotypes in order to be sextyped. This may serve in part to a ccount for conflicting results in previous research.