Him or her

Comprehending the pronouns her, him, and his: Implications for theories of referential processing

The research investigated how comprehenders use structural information during co-reference resolution of the pronouns her, him, and his. In Experiment 1, participants read sentences containing the pronoun her in object position, functioning as SPEC or NP and preceded by one of three types of NPs in subject position (e.g., ‘‘Mary/Mark/They saw her friend/yesterday. . .’’). In Experiment 2, addit...

Her odours make him deaf: crossmodal modulation of olfaction and hearing in a male moth.

All animals have to cope with sensory conflicts arising from simultaneous input of incongruent data to different sensory modalities. Nocturnal activity in moths includes mate-finding behaviour by odour detection and bat predator avoidance by acoustic detection. We studied male moths that were simultaneously exposed to female sex pheromones indicating the presence of a potential mate, and artifi...

Relationship quality with pre-school children: How domestic work matters to her, him, and them

Persuade him by email, but see her in person: Online persuasion revisited

This study replicated and expanded on earlier research on gender differences in the evaluation of computer-mediated persuasive messages. Participants discussed a counter-attitudinal topic with a same-gender confederate. Those participants made to feel a sense of shared identity (high oneness) with the communicator were the most favorable toward the proposal whereas those participants made to fe...

Whose socioeconomic status influences a woman's obesity risk: her mother's, her father's, or her own?

BACKGROUND Evidence on the relative influence of childhood vs adulthood socioeconomic conditions on obesity risk is limited and equivocal. The objective of this study was to investigate associations of several indicators of mothers', fathers', and own socioeconomic status, and intergenerational social mobility, with body mass index (BMI) and weight change in young women. METHODS This populati...