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SUMMARY:Kerri Johnson - Gender Counts: Why perceptions of masculinity and femininity are as important as the cues that convey them
DESCRIPTION:Kerri Johnson: UCLA Communication StudiesIn the 1950s\, Doris Troy famously sang\, “Just one look…that’s all it took\,” implying that attraction can begin\nwith little more than a glance.  Contemporary research in person construal generally corroborates this\nobservation\, but debate continues about precisely how physical cues come to convey attractiveness.  One\nunresolved question centers on whether objective indices of masculinity and femininity predict perceived\nattractiveness.  Attempts to answer this question have been frustrated by contradictory results.  In this talk\, I\nwill argue that masculinity and femininity are better defined as subjective judgments of the gender-typicality of\na trait\, not as objective indices of sexual dimorphism.  I will present data suggesting that once sex\ncategorization has occurred\, sexually dimorphic traits are interpreted to be either masculine or feminine\, the\ntypicality of which strongly predicts perceptions of attractiveness.  Masculine men and feminine women are\nperceived as attractive; feminine men and masculine women are not.  This perspective has several important\nimplications.  First\, this perspective implies that the accuracy or error in the cognitive representations of sexual\ndimorphism will systematically skew gender judgments and thereby affect perceived attractiveness.  At times\,\nthis may result in preferences that appear quite extreme by objective standards.  At other times\, this may even\nyield preferences for traits that are gender atypical by objective standards.  Second\, this perspective\nacknowledges the importance of cultural and ecological factors as moderators of the relation between cues\nand attractiveness.  Perceptions of masculinity/femininity are likely to vary systematically with culture and\necology\, and perceived attractiveness should vary accordingly.  In sum\, my talk will describe how perceptions\nof masculinity and femininity provide the evaluative interpretation of biologically relevant cues – engendering\nrapid and ready judgments of attractiveness from “just one look.”http://www.bec.ucla.edu/Johnson&Tassinary(2007).pdf
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/kerri-johnson-gender-counts-why-perceptions-of-masculinity-and-femininity-are-as-important-as-the-cues-that-convey-them/
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SUMMARY:Richard Lippa - Sex Differences in Sexuality\, Personality\, and Cognitive Abilities across 53 Nations:\nProbing Evolutionary and Sociocultural Explanations
DESCRIPTION:Richard Lippa: Cal State University\, Fullerton Department of PsychologyBBC data from 53 nations and from more than 200\,000 participants provide new insights into sex differences\nin: (1) sexual traits (e.g.\, sex drive and sociosexuality)\, (2) mate preferences (e.g.\, the value assigned to\nphysical attractiveness\, intelligence\, honesty in a mate)\, (3) personality traits (e.g.\, extraversion\,\nagreeableness\, neuroticism\, people-versus-thing orientation)\, and (4) cognitive abilities (mental rotation\nability\, line angle judgment ability).  Predictions that follow from social role theory—e.g.\, that sex differences\nwill be larger in countries with stronger gender roles—received little support in the BBC data. In contrast\,\npredictions that follow from evolutionary theories—e.g.\, that there will be consistent sex differences across\nnations\, which do not covary with nations’ levels of gender equality—received support for many of the\nassessed sex differences. Results for sociosexuality (sex differences were larger in patriarchal than in\ngender-egalitarian nations\, and women’s sociosexuality varied more across nations than men’s did) were\nconsistent with a hybrid model—that cultural factors influence women’s sociosexuality more than men’s and\nare superimposed on biologically-based sex differences.  Results for sex differences in trait SDs (e.g.\, across\nnations\, women varied more than men did in sex drive and extraversion; men varied more than women did in\nagreeableness and mental rotation scores) also tended to support biological theories over social structural\ntheories\, except in the case of sociosexuality\, where results were consistent with a hybrid model that\nassumed cultural influences superimposed on biological predispositions: for sociosexuality\, men were more\nvariable than women in patriarchal countries\, but the reverse was true in gender-egalitarian countries.http://www.bec.ucla.edu/Lippa_sex_drive_and_sociosexuality_UCLA%5B1%5D.doc
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/richard-lippa-sex-differences-in-sexuality-personality-and-cognitive-abilities-across-53-nationsprobing-evolutionary-and-sociocultural-explanations/
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SUMMARY:Russ Poldrack - How\, and what\, can neuroimaging tell us about the mind?
DESCRIPTION:Russ Poldrack: UCLA PsychologyIt has become common practice amongst neuroimaging researchers to infer the presence of mental\nprocesses from activation in particular parts of the brain.  The validity of this practice\, which I refer to as\n“reverse inference”\, depends upon how selectively specific brain regions are associated with specific mental\nprocesses. I will present evidence suggesting that these associations are often weak\, providing little\nevidence in favor of the reverse inference.  I will also discuss general strategies by which one can use\nneuroimaging to inform theories of mental processes.
URL:https://bec.ucla.edu/event/russ-poldrack-how-and-what-can-neuroimaging-tell-us-about-the-mind/
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