Introduction The research I conducted for the neuroscience emphasis graduation requirement was a combined topic with my gender studies minor thesis. The thesis title was Dirty Minds: Comparing the Gender Differences in Neural Sexual Arousal with Theories of Human Sexuality. The first purpose of the thesis was to explore the neuroscience evidence for gender differences in sexual arousal to bette...

This study explored the relationships between professional orientation (defined as how the principal sees his or her role in the organization) and school culture, the influence of gender on professional orientation, and the relationship between school culture and the academic achievement of students. One hundred principals were surveyed. Two instruments, the Professional Orientation and the Sch...

Child clinical problems may differ in their power to evoke clinic referral, and this "referability" of problems may also differ with the gender or culture of the child who manifests them. The authors propose (a) a method for the study of such differences and (b) a new statistic, the referability index (RI). RI reflects the frequency with which a child problem stimulates clinic referral, adjuste...

LaRossa, Jaret, Gadgil, and Wynn (2000, 2001) conducted a content analysis of 495 comic strips published on Father’s Day and Mother’s Day in the United States from 1945 to 1999 in order to determine whether the culture of fatherhood and gender disparities in the media had changed over the past half-century. Drawing on their research, I conducted a similar kind of analysis of 246 comic strips pu...

In this study, we examined how marriage and family therapists from various countries and diverse cultural backgrounds address the intersection of gender, power, and culture in therapy. Twenty participants from 15 countries responded to an Internet survey that included several hypothetical, clinical vignettes not associated with any one particular culture or nationality. Participants selected a ...