News tagged with masculine characteristics
Study shows exposure to female managers increases their popularity
Do common stereotypes about female characteristics keep the number of women in management roles low? This is the question posed by Janka Stoker and her colleagues from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in their ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 22, 2011 |
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Hormone that affects finger length key to social behavior
The hormones, called androgens, are important in the development of masculine characteristics such as aggression and strength. It is also thought that prenatal androgens affect finger length during development in the womb. ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Mirror mirror (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Women are attracted to men who look like a masculine version of them, according to a new study.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 14, 2009 |
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No crystal ball necessary: Scientists can accurately predict leadership emergence
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dutch scientists at VU University Amsterdam are able to quite accurately predict the emergence of leaders in domains such as politics and the military. They developed a model of leadership emergence based ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Bijou's abnormally large clitoris leads to big surprise
Bijou is an 18-month old French bulldog that appears perfectly normal at first glance. She is healthy and her behavior is exemplary. However, her owner brought her to the Université de Montréal Faculty ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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On Darwin and gender
In 1864, German naturalist Ernst Haeckel wrote to naturalist Charles Darwin, promising to send some marine shells that displayed “a detailed representation of the Rhizopod organism.” But for the ...
Jul 08, 2011 |
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Gender stereotypes could push women away from entrepreneurship
Vishal Gupta believes the way that entrepreneurship is presented, discussed and taught must change — especially for women.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Study finds 'masculine' women get more promotions at work
Women who demonstrate stereotypical masculine traits should be mindful of their behavior if they want to get ahead in the workplace. That is the finding of researchers at George Mason University and Stanford University who ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Fossil finger records key to Neanderthals' promiscuity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossil finger bones of early human ancestors suggest that Neanderthals were more promiscuous than human populations today, researchers at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford have found.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Study recommends that parents, physicians share decisions in sex development disorder surgery
A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging and controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in sexual ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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Reading the look of love
How fast you can judge whether a person of the opposite sex is looking at you depends on how masculine or feminine they look, according to a new study. The researchers speculate that there may be an evolutionary advantage ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Women's Perceived Leadership Weaknesses Actually Strengths
(PhysOrg.com) -- A perception of sensitivity and competence causes women to be evaluated as better leaders than men in comparable positions, says a recent study.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 12, 2010 |
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GM Unveils Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V) Concept (w/ Video)
By 2030, urban areas will be home to more than 60 percent of the world's 8 billion people. This will put tremendous pressure on a public infrastructure that is already struggling to meet the growing demand ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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