Depression, Masculine Norm Adherence, and Fathering Behavior

Norm-violation, norm-adherence, and overeating.

Two routes to overeating are discussed; they are both premised on people's strong motivation to avoid eating excessively and thereby avoid negative ascriptions associated with the overeatingloverweight stereotype. The first route to overeating involves infractions of restrictive intake norms: people who attempt to restrict their intake by implementing dietary rules often run afoul of disinhibit...

Psychology of Men & Masculinity Men's Self-Compassion and Self-Esteem: The Moderating Roles of Shame and Masculine Norm Adherence

Neurobiological correlates of masculine sexual behavior.

The experimental analysis of the neuroendocrine interactions regulating sexual behavior has traditionally relied on studying the effects of CNS lesions and pharmacological treatments with hormones or drugs purportedly acting through specific neurotransmitter systems. New methodological developments have allowed the assessment of several indices of neural function in experimental animals, partic...

The Masculine Depression Scale: Development and Psychometric Evaluation

A preponderance of anecdotal evidence suggests that men manifest depression differently than women and that this atypical symptom presentation is even more evident in men who adhere to restrictive masculine norms (Cochran & Rabinowitz, 2000; Real, 1997). The aim of this study was to develop a self-report assessment instrument, the Masculine Depression Scale (MDS), which captures these atypical ...

Towards a Logic of Graded Normativity and Norm Adherence

A key focus of contemporary agent-oriented research and engineering is on open multiagent systems composed of truly autonomous, interacting agents. This poses new challenges, as entities in open systems are usually more or less mentally opaque (e.g., possibly insincere), and can enter and leave the system at will. Thus interactions among such blackor gray-box entities usually imply more or less...