According to ambivalent sexism theory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), the coexistence of gendered
power differences and mutual interdependence creates two apparently opposing but …

Research linking genetic differences with human social and behavioural phenotypes has
long been controversial. Frequently, debates about the ethical, social and legal implications …

The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to progress toward gender equality
and, instead, exacerbated existing gender inequalities across domains—from gendered …

A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us--including many of those who are
persecuted and powerless--so often defend the social systems that cause misery and …

A theory of system justification was proposed 25 years ago by Jost and Banaji (1994, Br. J.
Soc. Psychol., 33, 1) in the British Journal of Social Psychology to explain 'the participation …

The belief that women are more emotional than men is one of the strongest gender
stereotypes held in Western cultures (Shields, 2002). And yet, gender stereotypes of …

In the Western world, gender has traditionally been viewed as binary and as following
directly from biological sex. This view is slowly changing among both experts and the …

Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the
beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own …

Why is there so much occupational sex segregation in the 21st century? The authors cast
light on this question by using the O* NET archive of occupation traits to operationalize the …

Abstract Four studies (n= 1199) tested support for the idea that implicit theories about the
fixedness versus malleability of gender roles (entity vs. incremental theories) predict …