gender

Although marriage often enhances people’s health, how and when partners argue with their spouses can have negative health consequences.

A new review of scientific research that compares men’s and women’s ability to produce humor has the answer.

Serial killers—yes, serial killers—may tell us something important about human evolution. Some hunt; others appear to gather.

Indifference to the rights of women and transgender people may lie in a certain way of thinking about gender.

Mothers and fathers often play different roles at home, and this difference can affect their happiness as parents.

Recent research shows that women are more physically “in synch” during conversations than men are.

Emotionally distant men in romantic relationships tend to have greater beliefs that women are manipulative and power-hungry.

The arrangement of pictures on a magazine page can affect people’s stereotypes about women and men.

Role models are not superhuman, and they sometimes fail. Although we might accept their imperfections, we do not expect that other people will treat them the same.

Cabbage rolls, water bottles, and disappointment: See what you may have missed in the world of personality and social psychology in this week's ICYMI roundup.

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