News tagged with gender stereotypes

Openly gay: Does it affect performance appraisal?

Although knowing an actor is gay significantly affected ratings of his masculinity, there was no significant effect on ratings of his acting performance, researchers say.

Psychology & Psychiatry May 13, 2013 | not rated yet | 0

Negative stereotypes about boys hinder their academic achievement

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, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 12, 2013 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Gender and race: How overlapping stereotypes affect our personal and professional decisions

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 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 03, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

People identify symptoms of depression more readily in women than men

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 ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Nov 14, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Gender stereotypes and nature vs. nurture

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.

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 08, 2012 | 1.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Love knows no gender difference

(HealthDay) -- Think married men and women show their love in vastly different ways? Not necessarily.

Psychology & Psychiatry Jul 31, 2012 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Men win humor test (by a hair)

Men are funnier than women, but only just barely and mostly to other men. So says a psychology study from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences.

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 19, 2011 | 2.6 / 5 (8) | 17 |

Women, men and the bedroom

(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." ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 14, 2011 | 2.8 / 5 (4) | 3 |

Ethnic, gender stereotypes bias treatment of Parkinson's disease

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 ...

Health Jul 06, 2011 | not rated yet | 0 |