"Thus, men supported our expectation that if they associated women with sex (through sexual encounters that likely lead to emotional conditioning), they would prefer women to the extent they liked sex. By contrast, men low on sexual experience implicitly disliked women to the extent they liked sex. Although we did not expect the latter result, in hindsight it supports emotional conditioning as a source for implicit attitudes. A plausible interpretation is that men who like sex and have their sexual needs fulfilled by women tend to automatically favor women, whereas men who want but are deprived of sex may implicitly resent women. That is, if we assume that sexual gratification (or its absence) is an affective experience for men, the pattern of results is not surprising. Moreover, this interpretation coheres with Glick and Fiske’s (1996) argument that men may express benevolence toward women because they depend on them (e.g., for sexual relations). If women are not forthcoming, their dyadic power over men may backfire, resulting in implicit sexism."
Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias: Why Do Women Like Women More Than Men Like Men?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2c44/14cde6b6a011e9f4910e6389d658278e3a7a.pdf
By the way, this research also shows that men and particularly women have a favorable bias towards women(seeing positive attributes in her) while neither men nor women have a positive bias towards men which may indicate one of the important underlying reason for our gynocentric society.
Gender Differences in Automatic In-Group Bias: Why Do Women Like Women More Than Men Like Men?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2c44/14cde6b6a011e9f4910e6389d658278e3a7a.pdf
By the way, this research also shows that men and particularly women have a favorable bias towards women(seeing positive attributes in her) while neither men nor women have a positive bias towards men which may indicate one of the important underlying reason for our gynocentric society.
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