"In other words, anxious men are likely to alternate between chivalry and hostility toward female partners, acting like a knight in shining armour when she fulfills his goals and ideals about women, but like an ogre when she doesn't," Hart explains.
The survey results also showed that anxiously attached men tend to be romantics at heart who adopt benevolently sexist beliefs, while avoidantly attached men lean toward social dominance. That, in turn, leads them to hostile sexism.
