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Yoder, J. D., Hogue, M. Newman, R., Metz, L. & LaVigne, T. (2003).  Exploring moderators of gender differences: Contextual differences in door-holding behavior.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 1682-1686.

Research performed by Yoder, Hogue, Newman, Metz and Lavigne (2002) used door holding as a proxy variable to measure gender differences in social situations.  These authors had three competing hypotheses based on door holding as being gender neutral, gender helpful or benevolently sexist.  They felt if door holding was gender neutral, there would be no difference in whether a man or woman held the door in any situation. Likewise, if the act was gender helpful (with helpful being related to chivalry and therefore a more masculine act), men would be more likely to hold the door for women in any situation.  The third hypothesis was door holding as a benevolently sexist act and would show that men would be more likely to hold doors for women while portraying gender specific roles (i.e. heterosexual dating), but would not hold doors as much for women in everyday social situations. Yoder, Hogue, Newman, Metz and Lavigne (2002) designed their experiment to determine which hypothesis better represents male-female behavior.
          In this experiment, 769 male-female college aged pairs were observed independently by five undergraduate students in both everyday social situations and situations in which they might be portraying gender specific roles (heterosexual dating).  To be included in the study, the pair had to approach the door together and one member (either male or female) had to open the door for the other person.  404 male-female pairs were observed opening doors for each other at 7 different common social areas and were included in the study only if they showed no outward signs of dating.  Alternatively, 365 male-female pairs were observed at 9 traditional dating locations and were only included if they exhibited clear signs of dating.
The researchers showed that women hold the door significantly more than men (χ2 (1, N = 404) = 4.37, p=.037), over 55% of the time, in everyday situations. Men, however, held the door significantly more than women ( χ2 (1, N = 365) = 41.45, p < .001), over 66% of the time, while in gender specific roles.  After analyzing the data, the only supported hypothesis was that door holding could be explained as benevolently sexist, meaning that men perceived women much more stereotypically while in gender specific roles and consequently enforced helpful gender stereotypes with more frequency whether or not their actions were controlling.  Yoder, Hogue, Newman, Metz and Lavigne (2002) were able to show that gender relations change due to specific social situations and proxy variables should be used only in their context to define male-female interaction.
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