About the Author:
Anne E. Beall is a Doctoral candidate in Social Psychology at Yale University. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Delaware in 1988. She received her Master of Science degree from Yale in 1990, and her Master of Philosophy degree from Yale in 1991. Her research interests include love, close relationships, gender, and emotions.
Robert J. Sternberg is IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University. He was graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1972, and received his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1975. Sternberg is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, and currently is Editor of the PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN and is President-Elect, Division 1 of the APA. He is the author of over 300 books, chapters, and articles in the field of psychology. He has received over $5 million in government and foundation grants to study intelligence and related topics, and is currently involved in several projects in the schools, including the development of a program for teaching practical and creative intelligence for schools to sixth-graders. Sternberg has won numerous awards from various organizations, including the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Guggenheim Foundation, Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology, and the National Association for Gifted Children. Sternberg is married to Alejandra Campos, and has two children, Seth (13), and Sara (12).
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Foreword, Ellen Berscheid
Preface, Anne E. Beall and Robert J. Sternberg
1. What is the Relation of Gender to Biology and Environment?: An Evolutionary Model of
How What you Answer Depends on Just What You Ask, Robert J. Sternberg
I. GENDER IN THOUGHT AND ACTION.
2. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: A Social Psychological View of Gender, Florence L. Geis
3. Gender in Thought, Belief, and Action: A Cognitive Approach, Susan E. Cross and Hazel
Rose Markus
4. The Social Learning of Gender, Bernice Lott and Diane Maluso
II. BROAD THEORIES OF GENDER.
5. A Social Constructionist View of Gender, Anne E. Beall
6. The Evolutionary Perspective, Douglas T. Kenrick and Melanie R. Trost
7. Aspects of Early Gender Development: A Psychodynamic Perspective, Irene Fast
III. GENDER ACROSS THE LIFE-SPAN AND ACROSS CULTURES.
8. Gender and Childhood Socialization, Carol Nagy Jacklin and Chandra Reynolds
9. A Cross-Cultural Viewpoint, Deborah L. Best and John E. Williams
IV. INTEGRATION.
10. The Psychology of Gender: A Perspective on Perspectives, Mahzarin R. Banaji
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