Beyond essentialist fallacies: Fine‐tuning ideology critique of appeals to biological sex differences

Hufendiek, Rebekka

doi:10.1111/josp.12389

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“…They contrast this belief with that of social constructionism, the belief that reality is socially constructed, which emphasizes language as an important means by which we interpret experience. Essentialist claims about inevitable differences with regard to sex and gender have been argued to be incompatible with feminism (e.g., Kelly, 2014 ), and the controversies surrounding this topic have come to reach larger audiences (e.g., Hufendiek, 2022 ). This could in part explain why women do not venture into working on these themes.…”

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The gender gap in political psychology

Lönnqvist

2022

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionI investigated the authorship gender gap in research on political psychology.MethodsThe material comprises 1,166 articles published in the field’s flagship journal Political Psychology between 1997 and 2021. These were rated for author gender, methodology, purpose, and topic.ResultsWomen were underrepresented as authors (37.1% women), single authors (33.5% women), and lead authors (35.1% women). There were disproportionately many women lead authors in papers employing interviews or qualitative methodology, and in research with an applied purpose (these were all less cited). In contrast, men were overrepresented as authors of papers employing quantitative methods. Regarding topics, women were overrepresented as authors on Gender, Identity, Culture and Language, and Religion, and men were overrepresented as authors on Neuroscience and Evolutionary Psychology.DiscussionThe (denigrated) methods, purposes, and topics of women doing research on politics correspond to the (denigrated) “feminine style” of women doing politics grounding knowledge in the concrete, lived reality of others; listening and giving voice to marginalized groups’ subjective experiences; and yielding power to get things done for others.

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The gender gap in political psychology

Lönnqvist

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…“If a trait is biological, then it is a part of our essence, and as such—it is unchangeable.” The essentialist fallacy (Hufendiek, 2018) contains elements of both the deterministic zombie and the naturalistic fallacies (if it is biological, it cannot and should not be changed). The reason we list it separately is that there is an interesting developmental moment in children’s tendency to form such presumptions.…”

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The how and the why of the human inability to accept evolutionary explanations.

Hromatko¹,

Hrgović²

2020

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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It is no news that evolutionary behavioral sciences have been received with skepticism, in both popular and scientific outlets. Interestingly, even though evolutionary behavioral scientists traditionally aim to provide the ultimate explanations of behavior, they lag behind in applying the same level of causation in explaining the cold reception of their discipline. Here, we differentiate between the “how” and the “why” to explain human determination in proving their exceptionalism from the rest of the natural world. Deeper understanding of these motivations might result in interventions aimed at changing the popularly held view of this field as “bad science.”

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Beyond essentialist fallacies: Fine‐tuning ideology critique of appeals to biological sex differences

Cited by 2 publications

References 51 publications

The gender gap in political psychology

The gender gap in political psychology

The how and the why of the human inability to accept evolutionary explanations.

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