In two studies we disentangled and systematically investigated the impact of subtle facial cues to masculinity/femininity and gender category information on first impressions. Participants judged the same unambiguously male and female target persons-either with masculine or feminine facial features slightly enhanced-regarding stereotypically masculine (i.e., competence) and feminine (i.e., warm...

A self-theory of transvestism and secondary transsexuality in which gender identity is a major self subsystem has been advanced in previous research. Within this framework transsexuals and transvestites were compared on a number of developmental characteristics. While early-onset transsexuals (n = 103) were dominantly female, both late-onset transsexuals (n = 52) and transvestites (n = 36) show...

Four experiments investigated the effect of grammatical gender on lexical access in Russian. Adjective-noun pairs were presented auditorily, using a cued-shadowing technique in which subjects must repeat the second word (the target noun), following adjectives that are either concordant or discordant with the noun's gender. Experiment 1 demonstrates gender priming with unambiguous adjectives and...

The way media depict women and men can reinforce or diminish gender stereotyping. Which part does language play in this context? Are roles perceived as more gender-balanced when feminine role nouns are used in addition to masculine ones? Research on gender-inclusive language shows that the use of feminine-masculine word pairs tends to increase the visibility of women in various social roles. Fo...

Previous research has found a relationship between diierent measures of androgyny and performance on cognitive tests that diierentially favor, on average, either men or women. The present experiment was designed to test the relationship between androgyny, as measured by body proportions, salivary testosterone levels (T levels) and the Bem Sex Role lnventory (BSRI), and perfomance on sex-biased ...

This World of Words assignment was an exercise in enhanced lexical analysis and applied analytical thinking. Drawing upon the skills, insights, and research methods rehearsed over a series of short writing assignments, students were asked to compose a five-page analysis of a selected lexeme that examined its past and present histories, as well as its future possibilities. In “The ‘Feminine’ Ide...

Le kyste géant para-urétral féminin infecté est rarement rapporté dans la littérature. Ce kyste est différent du diverticule sous urétral sur le plan clinique, diagnostique et thérapeutique. Sa pathogénie se confond avec celle des diverticules sous urétraux. Son traitement n’est pas bien codifié, vu sa rareté. Nous rapportons un cas atypique de kyste géant para urétral infecté chez une jeune fe...

Since the 1920s, American advertisers have recognized the taboo associated with menstruation and have incorporated messages about the social consequences of ``showing’ ’ into feminine hygiene advertising. In order to answer the research question `̀ do advertisements that target girls perpetuate or dispel myths and taboos associated with menstruation? ’ ’ a content analysis was conducted on ten y...