**Original citation.** Lau, G.P., Kay, A.C., & Spencer, S.J. (2008). Loving those who justify inequality: The effects of system threat on attraction to women who embody benevolent sexist ideals. *Psychological Science, 19*, 20-21.
**Target of replication.** We seek to replicate the original authors' finding that male participants whose faith in the federal system was threatened would show greater romantic interest in women who embody benevolent sexist ideals than in women who do not embody these ideals, and that they would show greater interest in women who embody benevolent sexist ideals than would male participants whose faith in the system was not threatened, F(1,34) = 5.89, prep = .93.
**A priori replication criteria.** A successful replication would find that individuals will show greater romantic interest in benevolent-stereotypic women than in non-benevolent-stereotypic women when their system is threatened, but not when their system is unthreatened.
To test for the effects of system threat and activation of stereotypes on ratings of romantic interest, we planned to run a 2 (level of threat: system threat vs. no-systemthreat) x 2 (activation of stereotypes: benevolent vs. non-benevolent) mixed subjects ANOVA.
**Conclusions.** In contrast to Lau et al. (2008), we could not find any evidence that male participants whose faith in the federal system was threatened would show greater romantic interest in women who embody benevolent sexist ideals than in women who do not embody these ideals compared to male participants whose faith in the system was not threatened.
