Prevalence and consequences of adult sexual assault of men: Review of empirical findings and state of the literature

ZD Peterson, EK Voller, MA Polusny… - Clinical psychology review, 2011 - Elsevier
Male victims of adult sexual assault (ASA) are understudied as compared with female
victims. Further, commonly-held myths about sexual assault suggest that men cannot be …

Acceptance and adoption of protective measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of trust in politics and trust in science

S Dohle, T Wingen, M Schreiber - Social Psychological Bulletin, 2020 - spb.psychopen.eu
Abstract The United Nations have described the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) as the worst global crisis since the second world war. Behavioral protective …

Social media effects on young women's body image concerns: Theoretical perspectives and an agenda for research

RM Perloff - Sex roles, 2014 - Springer
Although there is a voluminous literature on mass media effects on body image concerns of
young adult women in the US, there has been relatively little theoretically-driven research on …

An intersectional analysis of gender and ethnic stereotypes: Testing three hypotheses

N Ghavami, LA Peplau - Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
We compared perceived cultural stereotypes of diverse groups varying by gender and
ethnicity. Using a free-response procedure, we asked 627 US undergraduates to generate …

Gender differences in financial risk tolerance

PJ Fisher, R Yao - Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
The purpose of this research is to explore gender differences in financial risk tolerance using
a large, nationally representative dataset, the Survey of Consumer Finances. The impact of …

Singles in society and in science

BM DePaulo, WL Morris - Psychological Inquiry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
We suggest that single adults in contemporary American society are targets of stereoty**,
prejudice, and discrimination, a phenomenon we will call singlism. Singlism is an outgrowth …

The handbook of communication skills

O Hargie, O Hargie - 2006 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook of Communication Skills is recognised as one of the core texts in the field of
communication, offering a state-of-the-art overview of this rapidly evolving field of study. This …

Misrepresentations of evolutionary psychology in sex and gender textbooks

BM Winegard, BM Winegard… - Evolutionary …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Evolutionary psychology has provoked controversy, especially when applied to human sex
differences. We hypothesize that this is partly due to misunderstandings of evolutionary …

Distinguishing Between Sex and Gender: History, Current Conceptualizations, and Implications

CL Muehlenhard, ZD Peterson - Sex roles, 2011 - Springer
Many psychologists, particularly feminist psychologists, have drawn a distinction between
the term sex and the term gender. The purposes of this paper were to review the history of …

Hands on what? The relative effectiveness of physical versus virtual materials in an engineering design project by middle school children

D Klahr, LM Triona, C Williams - Journal of Research in Science …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Hands‐on” activities play an important, but controversial, role in early science
education. In this study we attempt to clarify some of the issues surrounding the controversy …