Are men universally more dismissing than women? Gender differences in romantic attachment across 62 cultural regions

By D. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Lara K. Ault, Kevin L. Bennett, Borg Cunen, L. G. A. Caral, G. Caron, M. M. Casullo, Ikuo Daibo and 13 more. 2003

231 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/18ef5c15412a42d9fbf5942b529877227ebef30f

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

In Social Psychology

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating (2005, background): “& Zupanèiè, A. (2003b) Universal sex differences in the desire for sexual”
Attachment, sexual experience, and sexual pressure in romantic relationships: A dyadic approach (2007, result): “Gender differences on the attachment variables replicated findings from previous studies: Women were more attachment-anxious thanmen (see Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991, for another example), whereas men were slightly more avoidant (as also reported by Schmitt et al., 2003).”
Linking adult attachment to self-esteem stability (2007, background): “Gender Effects Gender differences exist in terms of attachment (e.g., Schmitt et al., 2003) and selfesteem level (e.g., Twenge & Campbell, 2001).”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “However, Schmitt et al. (2003) found sex differences in dismissing attachment were larger in nations with more egalitarian sex role socialization and greater sociopolitical gender equity.”