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Wagner, Elejabarrieta and Lahnsteiner (1995) conclude that people use
gender-stereotypic attributes and sexual metaphors in describing the s
perm and the ovum. The conclusion is criticized on the basis of two ar
guments. (1) the sperm is, in actuality, more active than the ovum and
this difference is reflected in subjects 'judgements, (2) in their st
udy, the researchers themselves induced (a) the person metaphor and (b
) gender categories. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.