With the changing societal views on gender, it is vital to continue to update psychological research on gender roles. An abundance of past research has demonstrated that people who behave in ways that are consistent with their gender are evaluated more positively than those who display gender-role inconsistent characteristics (e.g.,Blashill & Powlishta, 2009). However, with social attitudes towards gender as a binary construct shifting, and more people adopting both masculine and feminine characteristics, it is important to understand how androgynous people are evaluated. It was hypothesized that people who were described as gender-role consistent would be evaluated more positively than those described as gender-role inconsistent, with those being described as androgynous being rated somewhere in between (because they were described as possessing characteristics that are gender-role consistent and inconsistent). It was also hypothesized that status would mitigate the negative evaluations due to gender inconsistent behavior, with those who are gender inconsistent and high status being liked more than those who are low status and gender role inconsistent
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