The paper describes a series of perceptual experiments in which the prosodic parameters F0, energy, voicing and timing of utterances were systematically altered and the resulting speech resynthesised for a group of listeners. Using the linear-prediction source/filter model of production composite neutral spectral models were composed from the speech of two or more speakers. Listener responses o...

Evolutionary scientists argue that human cooperation is the product of a long history of competition among rival groups. There are various reasons to believe that this logic applies particularly to men. In three experiments, using a step-level public-goods task, we found that men contributed more to their group if their group was competing with other groups than if there was no intergroup compe...

This study utilized a comparative case study analysis to investigate how gender influenced the experiences of participants in a leadership development program (principal preparation program) designed to lead public K-12 schools identified as requiring turnaround. We closely focused on two participants, a man and a woman, and compared the ways each participant made meaning of his/her experiences...

and female one, as Eric Vilain from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA, and colleagues have reviewed recently (Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. (2014) 10, 603–615). While these variations of human sex between male and female are not necessarily linked to the psychological issue of gender identity, both display a spectrum of many different shades that is much more complex than the traditional...

Young adults in Western countries are drinking more alcohol than ever before, particularly young women. This study aimed to explore how women are (re)defining their gender identities in relation to men through consumption of alcohol. Eight friendship discussion groups were conducted in Auckland, New Zealand, with 16 women and 16 men aged 20–29 years. Participants viewed binge drinking as a rout...

Gender nonconforming (GN) children and adolescents, collectively referred to as GN youth, may seek care to understand their internal gender identities, socially transition to their affirmed genders, and/or physically transition to their affirmed genders. Because general pediatricians are often the first point of contact with the health care system for GN youth, familiarity with the psychologica...

Gender identity disorder is an urgent sense of discomfort and inappropriateness of the sexual anatomy and urgent desire to get rid of genital organs and to live as a person of the opposite sex. The importance of studying gender identity disorder and its negative impact on the living conditions of suffering people, was laying the groundwork to do some research in terms of psychology and sociolog...

conclusions regarding men’s influences on professional development, and also the importance of gender-based caring, policies for recruitment and retention of men in nursing must be followed hastily. however, there is a need for further research regarding the challenges faced by men entering nursing, in both iran and other developing countries. results most of the studies were conducted in devel...