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Implicit Stereotypes and Gender Identification may Affect Female Math Performance
New research may provide insight as to why, despite progress over the last few decades, women remain underrepresented in math-heavy majors and professions. In an article published in the January issue of Psychological Science, psychologists
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Women and Substance Abuse
In the fight against substance abuse, women are battling tougher odds with fewer weapons. That was the message from a panel of behavioral scientists and community health advocates at a recent conference on gender differences
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Where Behavior and Biology Meet
The second part of an occasional series profiling big psychology grants travels to Chicago’s Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, where a transdisciplinary team looks for the causes and cures of cancer. Centers for
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Isolation, Interdisciplinarity, Inspiration
Peter Glick is approaching his 18th year of teaching at Lawrence University, an undergraduate only liberal arts college of about 1400 students. In this guest column, he reflects on doing research in that setting, drawing
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Not-So-Cosmic Gender Differences
The Auditory System as a Window onto Human Prenatal Development and Sexual Differentiation Presenter: Dennis McFadden, The University of Texas at Austin Introduced by: Elaine Hull, State University of New York – Buffal Pop culture
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Everything to Do With Science
My fellow coffee drinkers at Tully ‘s, the morning establishment that I frequent, can attest to the profound irritation I felt upon hearing the news that the American Medical Association dismissed the longtime editor of
