This research reports on a conceptually and methodologically innovative study, which sought to measure the influence of gender on interpersonal distance. In so doing, we argue for an important distinction to be made between biological sex, gender role, and sexuality. To date, however, progress in the study of interpersonal distance (IPD) has been inhibited by poor operational definitions and in...

Various definitions of gender identity have ranged from recognition of one's biological sex to an individual's sense of masculinity cr femininity. For the purpose of this paper, which examines some of the theoretical approaches to the subject, gender identity will be defined as "the degree to which individuals are 'aware' of and accept their biological sex." Psychoanalytic or identificatiOn the...

The general goal of the author profiling task is to determine various social and demographic aspects of the author based on his pieces of writing. In this work, we propose an approach that combines word embeddings and classical logistic regression for identifying author gender and language variety based on the corresponding tweets. The model was trained on PAN 2017 Twitter Corpus that contains ...

Gender identity-one's sense of being a man or a woman-is a fundamental perception experienced by all individuals that extends beyond biological sex. Yet, what contributes to our sense of gender remains uncertain. Since individuals who identify as transsexual report strong feelings of being the opposite sex and a belief that their sexual characteristics do not reflect their true gender, they con...

Research indicates that men are more risk tolerant and make riskier financial decisions than women. To explain this, researchers have favored ‘‘essentialist’’ explanations that attribute differences to core biological mechanisms and have tended to neglect psychological mechanisms that reflect the influence of culture and socialization. To better understand gender differences in risk tolerance, ...

Infidelity poses threats to high-investment mating relationships. Because of gender differences in some aspects of reproductive biology, such as internal female fertilization, the nature of these threats differs for men and women. Men, but not women, for example, have recurrently faced the problem of uncertainty in their genetic parenthood. Jealousy is an emotion hypothesized to have evolved to...