http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Negative stereotypes about boys may hinder their achievement, while assuring them that girls and boys are equally academic may help them achieve. From a very young age, children think boys are academically inferior to girls, and they believe adults think so, too. Even at these very young ages, boys' performance on an academic task is affected by messages that suggest that girls will do better than they will. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-negative-stereotypes-boys-hinder-academic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:20:01 EST news279855736 Racial and gender stereotypes have profound consequences in almost every sector of public life, from job interviews and housing to police stops and prison terms. However, only a few studies have examined whether these different categories overlap in their stereotypes. A new study on the connections between race and gender – a phenomenon called gendered race – reveals unexpected ways in which stereotypes affect our personal and professional decisions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-gender-overlapping-stereotypes-affect-personal.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:51:47 EST news273772299 The ability to correctly identify signs of depression depends on the gender of both the identifier and the person with depression, as well as individual psychological differences, according to research published November 14 by Viren Swami from the University of Westminster, UK. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-people-symptoms-depression-readily-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:10:04 EST news272130570 Is gender difference a result of nature or nurture? Is neuroscience research being manipulated to support gender stereotypes? A debate at the Festival of Ideas will explore the issue later this month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-gender-stereotypes-nature-nurture.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:05:08 EST news268898695 (Medical Xpress) -- In the racy television hit show, Sex and the City, Carrie, one of the main characters tells her best girlfriends that "Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be." This is just one of the many gender stereotypes that audiences were exposed to in this show. The show challenged many stereotypes about sex and gender and refrained from the gender caricatures that typify so much television fare. Now, a new review article written by University of Michigan psychology professor Terri Conley and her team of graduate students – Amy Moors, Jes Matsick, Ali Ziegler and Brandon Valentine – examines how such gender stereotypes fueled the sexual revolution started by women in the 60s, now carried on proudly by Carrie and her gang. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-women-men-bedroom.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:54:09 EST news237797552 Cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes can significantly distort clinical judgments about "facially masked" patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a newly published study from researchers at Tufts University, Brandeis University and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-ethnic-gender-stereotypes-bias-treatment.html Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:39:46 EST news229163976