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For Immediate Release					       	    June 5, 1996
 
Lawrence University Psychologist Wins National Publication Award 
 
 
APPLETON, WIS. - Peter Glick, associate professor of psychology at Lawrence
University, has been awarded the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize for
1995 for the best paper or article of the year on intergroup relations.

Glick co-authored the paper, "The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Differentiating
Hostile and Benevolent Sexism," with Susan T. Fiske, professor of psychology at
the University of Massachusetts.  The paper, which was published recently in
the "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology," provides an analysis of
components of contemporary sexist attitudes and presents a measure -the
Ambivalent Sexism Inventory - to enable researchers to tap into these
attitudes. 

The paper provides evidence for the importance of distinguishing between sexist
antipathy, which they term "hostile sexism," and a more positive orientation,
which they call "benevolent sexism." They show sexism as a special type of
prejudice that can incorporate a deep ambivalence, rather than a straight-
forward hostility.  

The winning paper was selected from more than 60 submissions by faculty and
students nationwide from a variety of social science disciplines.  Entries were
evaluated on their originality, their relevance to core concerns in the area of
intergroup relations and the degree to which they provide new directions or
insights.

Glick joined the Lawrence faculty in 1985.  He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a
bachelor's degree in psychology from Oberlin College and earned his Ph.D. in
social psychology at the University of Minnesota.