Essential thought and gender Abstract

This was a collaborative project with Susan Gelman (U Michigan), author of “The Essential Child.”What is essentialism?  Essentialism refers to the idea that a thing has an inherent or natural meaning/form/way of being.  Essentialism is the fundamental...

Living the image

The goal of this study was to look at connections between several “masculinities” or “social identities”, such as “jock,” “tough,” and “nerd”, and how they connect to various components of masculinity, such as homophobia, sexism, competitiveness, etc.  (Nerds may be...