Gender Development Lab

03/11/2025

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15/09/2025

Three main findings from my new research on men’s femininity:

1️⃣ Femmephobia is everywhere. All men in the study recalled negative reactions when they expressed femininity.
2️⃣ Privilege changes the rules. Straight, white, or more “masculine” men often get a pass, while others face harsher policing.
3️⃣ ‘Gay allowance’ is real. Q***r men may be “allowed” to be feminine—but only in ways that fit stereotypes, reinforcing inequality.

This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s...

05/09/2025

New publication coming to Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin! Watch for "Evidence for the Sexuality as Gendered Framework from Interpersonal Contact ".

Some takeaways:
1. Having LGBTQ+ friends doesn’t just change how we see sexuality — it also shifts how we think about gender.
2. People with more LGBTQ+ friends are less likely to believe men must be “manly” and women “feminine,” and they’re more open to flexible gender roles.
3. Bottom line: sexuality and gender go hand-in-hand, and our friendships can help reshape outdated norms.

27/06/2025

Attended a workshop on how to use AI in teaching/research and learned about elicit.com, a really great (free) website that conducts a pretty solid literature review for you. You type in a clear question and it will generate a report of relevant literature. Fantastic resource for researchers and educators as well as people who want actual science to inform their opinions!
https://elicit.com/

Use AI to search, summarize, extract data from, and chat with over 125 million papers. Used by over 2 million researchers in academia and industry.

18/06/2025

Hello friends! I'm creating this page to share the great research that we are doing here at the Gender Development Lab. Watch for upcoming studies we'll be launching, preliminary findings, and published articles. I'm so excited to learn about gender with you!