Benedict Carey, best known for being J. Michael Bailey's lapdog, wrote a piece on Impostor Syndrome (NYT, 2008) yesterday. Impostor Syndrome is not a recognized mental disorder. Many researchers use the less clinical term "imposter phenomenon" (IP), possibly to avoid the popo psychology stigma of the "syndrome" terminology ( Read more... )

Lisa Diamond (Psychology and Gender Studies, Univ. Utah) made news this week with her research demonstrating that women with a bisexual identity did not identify as heterosexual or lesbian after ten years (EurekaAlert 2008, links to full article.) However, the news stories don't mention that Diamond's work is published in a special issue of the ( Read more... )

to letters@nytimes.com

It is disheartening to see Benedict Carey's ("Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege", August 21st) ongoing hero-worship of Dr. Bailey in the Health section of the Times. Carey’s portrayal of Dr. Bailey as a martyr to political correctness borders on propaganda ( Read more... )

How much of our brain's gender is visible in our hands? Sanders and Waters (2001) found that performance on sexually dimorphic tasks was predicted not by sex, but by finger ridge count (dermatoglyphics). Most people have more ridges on their right fingertips than their left. "Male-favouring" tasks were better performed by people with more right ( Read more... )

To the Health editors of the New York Times:

I was extremely disappointed with Nicholas Wade's article "Pas de Deux of Sexuality Is Written in the Genes" (4/10/2007). While Mr. Wade was correct to reference Larry Cahill's excellent 2006 review, it seems as if Mr. Wade read only the abstract. Dr. Cahill is fairly clear in his review that while ( Read more... )