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- Title
Young adults in the United States and Benin reason about gendered cultural traditions.
- Authors
Conry‐Murray, Clare; Shaw, Leigh A.
- Abstract
This study explored emerging and young adults' reasoning about cultural practices in West Africa. American (Study 1, n = 78, M = 20.76 years) and Beninese (Study 2, n = 93, M = 23.61 years) undergraduates were surveyed about their evaluations of corporal punishment, scarification, and schooling restrictions in conditions where the practices had gender-neutral or gender-specified targets. In Study 1, the majority (69%) of American participants negatively evaluated the practices, especially when targets were female. However, the majority (73%) assumed the cultural practices were consensual. In Study 2, the majority (76%) of Beninese participants negatively evaluated the practices, and their evaluations did not vary by gender of the target. Few (10%) Beninese participants assumed the cultural practices were consensual. In both studies, emerging and young adults who initially judged practices positively changed their evaluations with a change in consent.
- Subjects
UNITED States; YOUNG adults; CORPORAL punishment; CULTURE; PSYCHOLOGY of Undergraduates; SCARIFICATION (Body marking); BENINESE; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Social Development, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 4, p831
- ISSN
0961-205X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/sode.12228