Social psychologist Peter Hegarty commented on a post from last December on the "male-norm effect." Last year's post discussed Hegarty and Buechel's 2006 content analysis of gender difference psychology articles from 1965-2004, which found that men were reported as the norm. An experiment by Hegarty (2006) suggests this effect can be manipulated ( Read more... )

According to a University of Surrey press release (2006), research by Hegarty and Buechel (due to be published in the Review of General Psychology) demonstrates a distinct bias in how questions about gender are framed in psychological research. When presenting differences between men and women, men tend to be presented as "the norm" and women's ( Read more... )