In one study, 98 men and 102 women watched a ten-minute videotape of a conversation between a male professor and a female student.4 The student visits the professor’s office to ask for a deadline extension for a term paper. The actors in the film are a female drama student and a male drama professor. Neither actor acts flirtatious or provocative, although both have been instructed to behave in a friendly manner. Participants witnessed the tape and then rated the likely intentions of the woman using 7-point scales. Women watching the interaction were more likely to say that the student was
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