The growing body of literature on the recognition of sexual orientation from voice ("auditory gaydar") is silent on the cognitive and social consequences of having a gay-/lesbian- versus heterosexual-sounding voice. We investigated this issue in four studies (overall N = 276), conducted in Italian language, in which heterosexual listeners were exposed to single-sentence voice samples of gay/les...

The implications of the persistent gender gap in political knowledge are a puzzle that literature is still disentangling; and research has evidenced important differences way women men respond to survey questions. We argue this article items not only inform about cognition but also other latent traits related stereotyping. Gender stereotypes around push be knowledgeable so much women, which we ...

This article explores the lived experiences of Muslim youth in Belgium regarding their gender identity. Based on a qualitative study with focus groups among Moroccan Belgian youths, we examine usefulness studying identity as dynamic construct. Gender is not only shaped within and through different contexts, state youths negotiating between two worlds also highly complicates this construction. a...

This article is intended to provide evidence to suggest that information for teachers regarding transgendered children does not represent an adequate picture of transgendered children in schools and that primary schools need to be made more aware of how to deal with transgendered children, even if these children do not make themselves known to staff. It will argue that this is probably a contri...

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 57 percent of job openings in the United States (US) in 2006-2016 will require some post secondary education, jobs for community college graduates are expected to grow at twice the national average and the highest paying jobs will be in the Information Technology (IT) sector. Yet studies of preparation of IT professionals typically explore f...

Social and economic sanctions for counterstereotypical behavior have been termed the backlash effect. The authors present a model of the role of backlash in cultural stereotype maintenance from the standpoint of both perceivers and actors. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants lost a competition to either atypical or typical men or women and subsequently showed greater tendency to sabotage devia...

This study investigated the proposition that adolescence involves significant shifts in social identity as a function of changes in social context and cognitive style. Using an experimental design, we primed either peer or gender identity with a sample of 380 early- (12-13 years), mid- (15-16 years), and late-adolescents (18-20 years) and then measured the effect of the prime on self-stereotypi...

This study examines gender performances on mobile dating applications (MDAs) in the context of queer theory with the help of netnography methodology. The research was conducted with Wapa users from Turkey. Wapa can be defined as a popular, location-based, real-time dating application for lesbians. The research examines the self-presentation narratives from the contents of user accounts and focu...

This work constitutes a pilot study of male/female relationships in television situational comedies. Twenty-five sitcom episodes which aired on major television networks between the years 2000-2011 were evaluated for instances of the perpetuation of patriarchy and the stereotyping of traditional gender roles. The episodes were chosen from three different television shows. The findings indicated...

Early-onset disorders (e.g., conduct problems, autism) show a marked male preponderance, whereas adolescent-onset disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety) show a marked female preponderance. A developmental psychopathology framework provides a means to investigate complex gender-related etiologies of these different disorders. This review focuses on biological and environmental factors implicated ...