I developed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory to assess androgyny.
This test classifies individuals as androgynous, feminine, masculine, or undifferentiated.
I believe that androgynous people are psychologically healthier than others.
I say that undifferentiated individuals are less competent than others.
David Buss
I am an evolutionary psychologist.
I believe men and women differ psychologically when considering their adaptation problems across their evolutionary history.
I found men are superior in the cognitive domain of spatial rotation.
I cite a sex difference in casual sex with men engaging in more of it.
I feel most sex differences are exactly the type predicted by evolutionary psychology.
Alice Eagly
My research is in the psychology of attitudes and the psychology of gender.
I developed the social role theory.
I believe that the fact that women have less power in most societies influences their gender roles.
I have developed a critique of evolutionary psychology from the perspective of social role theory.
Erik Erikson
I developed the theory of psychosocial stages of development.
I believe an individual's genitals influence their gender behavior.
I believe that the psychological differences between males and females are due to anatomical differences.
I later revised my theories to state that women are overcoming their biological heritage.
Sigmund Freud
I developed the theory of psychosexual stages of development.
I believe an individual's genitals influence their gender behavior.
I say gender and sexual behavior are instinctual.
Carol Gilligan
I believe girls and women are more relationship-oriented than boys and men.
I think that girls experience life differently than boys because they are more attuned to emotions in relationships.
I say adolescence is a critical juncture in the development of girls.
I think girls must choose whether to align with a society that values traditional male characteristics, "silencing" their "voice," or be true their feminine self.
Carol Jacklin and Eleanor Maccoby
We believe males have better mathematical and visuospatial skills than females.
We believe that females have better verbal skills than males.
Maccoby later concluded that the verbal difference has faded with time.
We published The Psychology of Sex Differences to empirically challenge myths about sex differences.
We documented the development of cross-gender relationships.
Lawrence Kohlberg
I proposed the cognitive developmental theory of gender.
I believe that gender depends on cognition.
I apply the ideas of Piaget, including conservation and categorization, to gender.
I believe that children go through three stages of gender development that correspond to Piaget's stages of cognitive development.
Joseph Pleck
My research interests include fatherhood and young men's romantic relationships.
I believe much of what is considered masculine behavior is not socially approved.
I say adolescent boys face the pressure of engaging in risky behavior to prove their masculinity.
I believe we should think of ourselves as people rather than masculine, feminine, or androgynous.
Janet Shibley Hyde
My research interests include the psychology of women, human sexuality, and gender-role development.
I believe cognitive differences in women and men have been exaggerated.
I say there are greater within group differences than between group differences in describing abilities of men and women.
I helped develop the Feminist Identity Development Scale.
Deborah Tannen
I am a sociolinguist.
I study socioemotional differences.
I distinguish between rapport and report talk.
I believe that boys and girls grow up in different worlds of talk.
I believe that girls are more relationship oriented than boys.
