ing, might override cultural status when predicting automatic gender attitudes. Also, the main target was to asses support for five possible explanations for this phenomenon; sex differences in balanced gender identities, gender stereotypes, developmental events, male threat perceptions, and attitudes toward sex. The other article's questions were whether negotiators are motivated to mobilize their scarce cognitive resources to pay attention to, examine, and process the strategic information that is provided by the opponent's emotions. Previous researchers found that interpersonal effects of anger and happiness on concession making suggests that these effects are mediated by cognitive processes that require some degree of information processing on the part of the emotion-perceiving negotiator. It has been shown that positive affect increases concession making. These investigators expected their hypotheses to follow through and be correct, and answer all the prior questio
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