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The Effects of Age at Infection and Gender on the Pathogenesis of Theiler’s Virus Induced Disease – A Model of Human Multiple Sclerosis
(2008-09-10)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) affecting 1 in 2000 of the US population. Susceptibility to MS is influenced by environmental, gender, ...
Disseminative Collapse: A Derridean Critique of the Sex/Gender Distinction
In many strains of contemporary feminist theory, the sex/gender distinction is an elementary conception. Across its decades of paradigmatic prevalence within the discipline, the distinction consistently contextualizes the ...
Effects of Well-Adjusted Maternity Leave on the Gender Wage Gap: A Preliminary Framework
Since the 1980s, wage convergence between men and women has been slow and inconsistent across high-income nations. Moreover, long-established explanations such that of human capital factors more so explain the gender wage ...
Personality, Conflict, And Conflict Resolution
(1993)
This study probed the hypothesis that individual differences in agreeableness are related to patterns of interpersonal conflict. Participants (N = 124) were assigned partners, and then asked to solve jointly two social ...
The Effects of Differential Labels, Format of Questionnaire, Gender of Target and Gender of Respondent on Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men
(1987)
Two studies were conducted in which gender of respondent, label of target (lesbian/gay or homosexual), sex of target, format t of questionnaire and participants' reference groups (operationally defined by the sexual ...
The Effects of Parenting Styles on Children's Eating Habits
(1995)
This study examined whether parenting styles have an effect on children's eating habits using a sample of 263 participants (61 male, 202 female). Eating habits were measured using the Eating Attitudes Test (Garner & ...
Aggression, Self-Esteem, and Perceived Threat
(Texas A&M University, 2001)
Based on a study by Bushman and Baumeister (1998), we hypothesized that high global self-esteem and high collective self-esteem should be predictive of greater aggressive. We also hypothesized that participants with high ...
Does the gender of the professor affect the structuring of the design studio?
(1998)
A large gender difference exists in the percentage of male and female students enrolled in architecture schools. Roughly one-third of architecture students are females while about half of the student population at large ...
Unwanted Sexual Activity Among Males
(1986)
Recent research has found that many women are being forced or persuaded to engage in unwanted sexual activity. Are men ever forced or persuaded to engage in unwanted sexual activity? If so, how often, and why?
In a pilot ...
What’s in a Name? Forenames as a Predictor of Psychopathological Personality Traits
(2021-05-07)
Forenames are commonly recognized as labels used to identify or distinguish ourselves from others and signal varying levels of behavioral traits within a gender group, with some gender-specific forenames appearing as more ...