INTRODUCTION The second to fourth-digit-ratio (2D:4D), a putative marker of prenatal androgen action and a sexually dimorphic trait, has been suggested to be related with sports performance, although results are not univocal. If this relation exists, it is most likely to be detected by comparing extreme groups on the continuum of sports performance. METHODS In this study the 2D:4D ratio of wo...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to investigate associations between gender role orientation and eating pathology in a sample of females with eating disorders (ED). METHODS Sixty-eight women with anorexia nervosa and 123 women with bulimia nervosa completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), the Eating Disorders Inventory, and the Sexual Anxiety subscale of the Anorexia Nervosa Inve...

“Doing Things with Fetishism”: The Performing Hybrids in Carla Harryman’s Poetry Play Performing Objects Stationed in the Subworld by Laura Hinton Hybrid writings [are] staged as they are between fiction and theory, the domestic and history, abstractions and androgyny, the rational and the nonrational, the creator and her artifact, organize themselves against normative ideas while using whateve...

Abstract The aim of the present article is to provide a comparative analysis between two important works German and Hungarian literature on background theory Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypes. Both (the novel Demian by Hermann Hesse drama Erstwhile Solace [ Ősvigasztalás ] Áron Tamási) approach theme search for identity as well absolute divinity, with focus archetypes collective unconscious. Motifs...

METHODS The sample examined consisted of 413 men and 406 women aged 20-90 years. This sample was obtained in two parts. The first contained 215 men and 272 women aged 62-90 years, who formed a simple random sample of the 27,000 older people living in a defined area of Edinburgh. The method of sampling these subjects, who are taking part in a longitudinal study of ageing persons, has been descri...

We report a study on student’s attitudes to a visually androgynous in comparison to a male and a female Teachable Agent (TA). Results were that overall the androgynous agent was preferred over the female and male agents. A visually androgynous agent does not embody categorical gender attributes. At the same time it does not have to be genderless but instead represent both maleness and femalenes...