The belief that the target of sexism has shifted from women to men is gaining popularity. Yet despite its potential theoretical and practical importance, are now primary not been systematically defined nor it reliably measured. In this paper, we define in shift (BSS) introduce a scale measure it. We contend BSS constitutes new form contemporary characterized by perception anti-male discriminati...

Sexist attitudes do not exist in a limbo; they are embedded in larger belief systems associated with specific hierarchies of values. In particular, manifestations of benevolent sexism (Glick and Fiske 1996, 1997, 2001) can be perceived as a social boon, not a social ill, both because they are experienced as positive, and because they reward behaviors that maintain social stability. One of the s...

Agency attribution is a hallmark of mind perception; thus, diminished attributions of agency may disrupt social-cognition processes typically elicited by human targets. The current studies examine the effect of perceivers' sexist attitudes on associations of agency with, and neural responses to, images of sexualized and clothed men and women. In Study 1, male (but not female) participants with ...