Too Manly for Peace? Masculine Overcompensation and Support for Peace in Colombia

• In Event: Gender and Survey Experiments

Brief Overview

We conduct a survey experiment in Colombia to test whether insecurity about masculine identity leads men to overcompensate by adopting more masculine attitudes--in this case, support for war against the ELN rebel group.

Authors

• Dylan Forrester, University of Bergen

• Haley Daarstad, University of California, Davis

• Anissa Nia Joseph, University of California, Davis