The view that humans comprise only two types of beings, women and men, a framework that
is sometimes referred to as the “gender binary,” played a profound role in shaping the …

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 …

Human biobehavioral research is often rooted in and supports two interrelated binaries: one
that divides and essentializes humans into two sexes and values maleness over …

Psychology, along with the majority of professions and scientific disciplines, has undergone
dramatic shifts in gender composition over the past two decades. These changes have …

Do biological factors, such as gonadal hormones, determine our sexual destiny after our
genes are in place? Do they make men aggressive, or women nurturing? Do they cause …

This paper updates an earlier review of research on sex bias in psychological evaluation
and psychotherapy. The experimental analogue continues to dominate the literature and to …

International sex researcher, neuroscientist, and columnist Debra Soh debunks popular
gender myths in this scientific examination of the many facets of gender identity that “is not …

Empirical evidence affirms that gender is a nonbinary spectrum. Yet our review of recently
published empirical articles reveals that demographic gender measurement in psychology …

The scientific community widely recognizes that “sex” is a complex category composed of
multiple physiologies. Yet in practice, basic scientific research often treats “sex” as a single …

In many societies, people's own designations of their genders are viewed as legitimate
(Bartlett et al., 2000; Davies, 2007; Peletz, 2009), and people's gender classifications can …