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Can there ever be too many men ?   Some think more men, more problems.  But now a new study says that may not be true. The study focused on the fact that, since men are more prone to competitive risk-taking and violent behavior, what happens when the number of men is greater than the number of women in a population?    According to research by Florida State University Professor of Psychology Jon Maner, the answers might not be what you expect, says newswise.com.   “ When men outnumber women in a given ecology, intuition might suggest that rates of violent crime would skyrocket, marriages would destabilize and many children would be born out of wedlock, ” the web site quotes him .  “ Intriguingly, the opposite has been observed. ”   Although ecological sex ratios have been investigated extensively in nonhuman  species,  they  play a crucial role in humans as well. Many factors can produce sex ratio imbalances, includ...

We see a lot of men strutting around, puffing out chests, sometimes big muscles, he-men, acting like nothing can get them down. I'm not just talking about the White House.  But a new study has found that toxic masculinity is unsafe -- even for men . What are we talking about?  According to newswise.com, it can harm the men feeling it just as much as the women they are around. “Often, toxic masculinity is a term that we use to describe how masculinity affects other people, especially women,” newswise quotes study co-author  Stef Shuster, MSU,assistant professor in Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Sociology at  Michigan State University   . “But our study shows how toxic masculinity also has detrimental consequences for the men who subscribe to these ideals. The very premise of hegemonic  (rulin g or  dominant in a political or social context)  masculinity in some ways is based on the idea of isolation because it’s about being auton...

Surprise!  Women CEOs are judged more harshly for corporate-ethical failures . According to newswise.com, p eople are less likely to support an organization after an ethical failure if the business is led by a woman, the American Psychological Association reports. However, organizations led by women endure less negative backlash for competence failures than those headed by men. “Our study found that consumers’ trust in, and willingness to support, an organization after a failure varied based on the gender of the organization’s leader and the type of incident,” says Nicole Votolato Montgomery, PhD, of the University of Virginia and lead author of the study, at the site. “Women incur greater penalties for ethical transgressions because of persistent gender stereotypes that tend to categorize women as having more communal traits than men, such as being more likable, sensitive and supportive of others. Even in leadership settings, women are still expected to be more communal ...

Quick quiz. Who do you think is more moral , a man who struts around trying to prove how masculine he is (I won't name names)?  Or a man whose favorite pastime is reading in a quiet corner? If you guessed the first guy, you'd be right. According to a new study, "a lthough some studies have linked high levels of testosterone to immoral behavior, a new study publish ed in  Nature Human Behaviour  finds testosterone supplements actually made people more sensitive to moral norms, suggesting that testosterone’s influence on behavior is more complicated than previously thought," reports newswise.com. . Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin took a deeper look at the hormonal underpinnings of moral reasoning . Previous research has investigated moral judgment on the basis of behavioral responses and brain activity, but the current study goes beyond this to analyze the role of deep-seated biological factors, particularly testosterone. “There’s been an in...

We knew this all along but we'll let you in on the secret.  A majority of Americans think women are just as competent as men , if not more so, according to the Los Angeles Times. Among the 25% of respondents who did perceive a gender difference in smart, most said that women were more intelligent and competent than men, the LA Times reported. This all came out of a scientific study published Thursday in the journal American Psychologist that examines Americans’ perceptions of women over the past 70 years. “It’s a pretty dramatic shift,” says  Alice Eagly , a social psychologist at Northwestern University in Illinois who led the work, at the site. “If you think women are still seen as less capable than men, then forget it. That is not the case.” Where did it ever come from, this idea that women can't do the same work as men? Pretty simple.  It all comes down to three things. "Eagly and her co-authors analyzed 16 public opinion polls spanning from 1946 to 2018...