Abstract Do popular children’s books tend to reflect gender stereotypes, and do parents prefer their daughters read reflecting this pattern? We explored these research questions using the Roger Hargreaves’ Mr. Men Little Miss collection of storybooks, which is a series individual stories all titled with based on binarized gendered character (e.g., Greedy, Sunshine). Using deductive content anal...

purpose this case study explores the lived experiences of an elite female paralympic powerlifting athlete. the focus is on restrictions and coping responses employed to manage the daily hassles within the cultural and ethnic requirements for achieving athletic excellence. methods with an unstructured interview, the narrative was acquired which ranged to a total of 75 minutes (approx) and 20 sin...

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Recent research presents a picture of diminishing gender differences in language. Two experiments examined whether language use can predict perceptions of gender and femininity; one included male and female speakers telling a personal narrative, the other also included male-to-female transgender speakers and analyzed an oral picture description. In each experiment, raters read transcribed sampl...

Correlational research suggests that men show greater attraction to feminine female faces when their testosterone (T) levels are high. Men's preferences for feminine faces also seem to vary as a function of relationship context (short versus long-term). However, the relationship between T and preferences for female facial femininity has yet to be tested experimentally. In the current paper, we ...

Fundamental frequency (F(0)) of speech is used to measure the success of voice therapy in male-to-female transgender clients. This study evaluates the relationship between F(0) and patients' happiness with their voice. The study design used was a cross-sectional evaluation of client satisfaction questionnaires and voice recordings from transgender clients. This study was a comparative evaluatio...

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...