Subjects were 40 male and 40 female college students in public speaking classes. It was also thought that subjects would rate male power figures as making a more positive impression than female power figures, and that men were more likely to advance criterion-based arguments and women to advance arguments of their own creation and based on human relationships and responsibility, to justify decisions. their failures to internal factors than would men. It was hypothesized that women would (1) report less self-confidence when approaching a communicative performance situation, (2) rate themselves less successfully following persuasive presentations, and (3) be more likely to attribute their success to external factors and. A study was conducted to examine the impact of gender on upward communication (subordinates to superiors) in organizations.
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