Cell phones, clothing, and sex: first impressions of power using older African Americans as stimuli.

{
  "study_type": "other",
  "exposure": {
    "band": null,
    "source": "mobile phone",
    "frequency_mhz": null,
    "sar_wkg": null,
    "duration": null
  },
  "population": "160 women from a predominantly Black college rating stimuli of older African Americans",
  "sample_size": 160,
  "outcomes": [
    "Perceived power (expert, legitimate, coercive subscales)",
    "First impressions related to prestige/status"
  ],
  "main_findings": "In a 2 (cell phone present/absent) × 2 (clothing jacket/no jacket) × 2 (sex) between-subjects design, multivariate analysis of variance showed a three-way interaction among clothing, cell phone, and sex of the stimulus person on perceived power ratings.",
  "effect_direction": "unclear",
  "limitations": [
    "No details provided in the abstract on the direction or magnitude of effects within the three-way interaction.",
    "Study concerns social perception of cell phone presence rather than EMF exposure or health outcomes.",
    "Participants were 160 women from a predominantly Black college, which may limit generalizability (not further described in abstract)."
  ],
  "evidence_strength": "low",
  "confidence": 0.74,
  "peer_reviewed_likely": "yes",
  "keywords": [
    "cell phone",
    "first impressions",
    "perceived power",
    "prestige",
    "status",
    "clothing",
    "sex differences",
    "older African Americans",
    "social perception"
  ],
  "suggested_hubs": []
}