by Andrew Smiler | Feb 24, 2008 | Media
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...
by Andrew Smiler | Dec 6, 2006 | Media
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...