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Mental health during medical transition in a US and Canadian sample of early socially transitioned transgender youth

This study looks at the mental health of a group of medically transitioning transgender adolescents who had made a binary social transition during childhood and who, in general, had not experienced substantial gender-incongruent puberty.

Flexibility in Continuous Judgments of Gender/Sex and Race

Across six preregistered studies (N = 1,292), we investigate how face perception along the dimensions of gender/sex and race can vary based on immediate contextual information as well as personal experience.

Gender essentialism and benevolent sexism in anti-trans rhetoric

We identify psychological constructs reflected in anti-trans rhetoric and then review existing literature on the consequences and beliefs associated with these constructs. Based upon this review, we argue that the reasoning used to promote anti-trans laws specifically, essentialist beliefs and benevolent sexism—is actually associated with outcomes that are detrimental to the very groups these laws purport to protect.

Asian Men and Black Women Hold Weaker Race–Gender Associations: Evidence From the United States and China

This research explores whether race–gender associations in mouse-tracking differed across racial/ethnic groups and between cultures.

Expectancy Effects Threaten the Inferential Validity of Synchrony-Prosociality Research

We propose that the effects of synchrony on prosociality may be explicable as the result of top-down expectations invoked by placebo and experimenter effects.

Assessing Implicit Attitudes about Androgyny

This research examines attitudes towards androgyny using a novel Implicit Association Test (IAT) that assesses implicit evaluations of gender conforming people (i.e., those who look stereotypically male or female) vs. androgynous people (i.e., those whose appearance includes a combination of masculine and feminine traits).

Infants relax in response to unfamiliar foreign lullabies

American infants relax in response to lullabies relative to non-lullabies, even when music is drawn from different cultures and sung in foreign languages.

Studying Gender Diversity

Gender identity is a core feature of human experience, yet our understanding of gender identity is shifting with broader societal changes in recognizing and understanding gender diversity. Here we discuss recent trends and upcoming directions for this burgeoning subfield.

Universality and diversity in human song

Ethnographic text and audio recordings map out universals and variation in world music.