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#feminismisdead: making the political personal: how psychology undermines feminist activism – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #feminismisdead, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / January 26, 2018What do these things even mean, outside of a psychology framework? And how would you determine and measure the results? Personal growth, improvement, realization, actualization, and empowerment sound ...
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#research: gender, socialisation and early sexism – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 6, 2017Researchers have shown that by age one (and in some studies, as early as three months old), children show clear preferences for gender-consistent toys (eg trucks for boys, dolls for girls). This occ...
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#guestpost: different nudes
By feimineach / in #guestposts / March 29, 2017We all have different nudes A few years ago my sister and I wrote a piece titled What colour is nude? for the British feminist website The F Word, The piece discussed the use of the word nude in orde...
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#womenslives: Self-help, beauty privilege, and the truth about confidence – @lipmag
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #quickhits / February 23, 2017Confidence is widely considered an excellent quality. It’s associated with communication skills, social suavity, and success. Studies even show that people possessing strong self-confidence earn more ...
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#guestpost: #research: What does the feminisation of psychology look like?
By feimineach / in #academia, #research, #education, #equality, #sexism, #guestposts / February 15, 2017In two previous posts published online at the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association Blog (FWSA) (one, two) I discussed women’s status in psychology. First I looked at the underrepresentation of wom...
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#guestpost: #research: More on the underrepresentation of women in psychology journals
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #sexism, #guestposts / January 30, 2017(Posted with permission from the author from the FWSA blog.) In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I...
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#research: brain study indicates why hard to change someone’s political beliefs – @B_resnick @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 3, 2017Psychologists have been circling around a possible reason political beliefs are so stubborn: Partisan identities get tied up in our personal identities. Which would mean that an attack on our strongly...
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#research: sadistic online bullies are sadistic bullies offline too. And all-round meanies
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / September 29, 2016(Use of exclusively quantitative data - from what I can see - aside, I’ll get on board because it’s a pretty obvious conclusion. This just in: sadistic online bullies are sadistic bullies offline too....
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#maleficentmisogyny: How ‘hysteria’ has been used to degrade and control women – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / July 19, 2016By Paula Michaels, Monash University: […] hysteria’s long, dark past as a medical diagnosis casts a shadow over our modern colloquial use. With a genealogy that can be traced back 4000 years to anc...
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ON THAT REPRODUCIBILITY IN PSYCHOLOGY STUDY
By feimineach / in #sociology, #research, #thinkyblog / August 30, 2015The feministphilosophers take on the recent claim from a study published in Science (Reproducibility in Psychology - Nosek et al, 2015) that some research in psychology is not replicable (i.e. the sam...
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#research: The study also found that both autonomy and relatedness are profoundly influenced
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 29, 2015The study also found that both autonomy and relatedness are profoundly influenced by the psychological control tactics used by their parents. “Psychological control includes tactics like ignoring kids...
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#research: The Big Five, self-esteem, and narcissism as predictors of the topics people write about in Facebook status updates
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 26, 2015Abstract: Status updates are one of the most popular features of Facebook, but few studies have examined the traits and motives that influence the topics that people choose to update about. In this st...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: sexist internet dudes refuse to believe sexism is a thing
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #research, #quickhits / January 16, 2015Clue’s in the title, there. From: feministing: According to a new study, That Guy in the Comments Section is going to need a lot more than Real Scientific Evidence to convince him that sexism exists....
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#research: What Looks Like Sexism and Why? The Effect of Comment Type and Perpetrator Type on Women’s Perceptions of Sexism
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 11, 2014Very interesting indeed. We (potentially) grade sexist comments and perceive some comments (hostile and from strangers or bosses) to be more sexist than others (benevolent and from boyfriends).Abstrac...
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#research: Be Wary of Studies That Claim Men and Women’s Brains Are Wired Differently
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 8, 2014A heads-up, just in case any of you were still inclined to take these studies at face value. On newrepublic: The Wall Street Journal reported this week on a spate of controversial new studies suggest...
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#research: Genders Aren’t So Different After All (so can we stop the Mars/ Venusthing now?)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 21, 2013Seriously, no one wants to hear the men are from mars and women are from venus (or whatever it was) trope any more. It was never a very good analogy anyway. Dating book authors and policymakers alike...
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#research: Feminised job titles encourage discrimination against women
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 20, 2013‘Feminised’ and gender specific job titles leave women being perceived as less capable, it suggests. Women who hold them were likely to be assessed as less impressive professionally than e...
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#research: Exposure to harsh parenting and pornography as explanations for males’sexual coercion and females’ sexual victimization
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 31, 2012On ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Abstract:Sexual violence against women is a major concern to researchers and policy makers, as well as to the general public. This study uses a sample of more than 2,000 college s...
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#research: Robots are stereotyped by gender too
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 19, 2012There you are. Robots are victims of the damn patriarchy too. People apply gender stereotyping to robots, according to research published in Germany.In the Journal of Applied Social Psychology (and a...
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#research: Stressed men prefer bigger women? Easy on the pop psychology, guys
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 10, 2012My thoughts exactly. One very limited study does not a theory maketh (and ends up being pretty damned offensive to boot) so why is it being reported by our mainstream media? Why does one speculative ...
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