• J Pers Soc Psychol · Nov 1983

    Is hostility linked with affiliation among males and with achievement among females? A critique of Pollak and Gilligan.

    • C J Benton, A C Hernandez, A Schmidt, M D Schmitz, A J Stone, and B Weiner.
    • J Pers Soc Psychol. 1983 Nov 1;45(5):1167-78.

    AbstractThis investigation attempted to replicate and to clarify methodologically an investigation by Pollak and Gilligan (1982). Those investigators reported sex differences in violence imagery to Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) pictures depicting affiliation and achievement situations. Pollak and Gilligan concluded that men perceive danger in situations of affiliation whereas women perceive danger in situations of achievement. It was demonstrated in the present study that Pollak and Gilligan incorrectly classified TAT cards into motivational categories, which may have resulted in incorrect inferences. In addition, their findings could not be replicated when using four different systems for classifying TAT cards into motivational categories. Other potential sources of error in their research, including a restrictive scoring scheme for hostility, unusual instructions, and failure to control for sex role in the TAT pictures, did not influence the pattern of results.

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