Continuing yesterday's theme, a story in The Age (Aus) reports that a parasite present in up to 40% of adults worldwide may have undiscovered effects on human behavior. Toxoplasma gondii may be responsible for changes in "sexual attractiveness, IQ, schizophrenia and the likelihood of being in a car accident." The article suggests that men ( Read more... )

Frederick et al (2005) found that images of men in men's magazines are more musclular than images of men in women's magazines. Frederick et al suggest that this is related to men overestimating the level of muscularity desired by women, parallel to the idea that women overestimate the level of thinness desired by men ( Read more... )

Studies consistently find that women see more sexual harassment in the workplace than do men (see review by Blumenthal, 1998). Some suggest that this may be due to differences in how sexual harassment is defined by these two groups. However, factors other than observer gender seem to play a role in whether a specific interaction is deemed to be ( Read more... )