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Women with more children show declining concern for climate change

On the occasion of today's Global Climate Strikes #FridaysForFuture demonstrations this serves as a slight damper.

Eco-Moms and Climate Change: The Moderating Effects of Fertility in Explaining Gender Differences in Concern

Women typically report greater concern for the environment, including climate change, than men. The eco-mom theory-the belief that women have greater environmental concern than men because mothers primarily care about the health and safety of their children, while fathers primarily care about the economic support of their household-is often proffered as an explanation for this difference. 

We look at fertility in relation to concern for climate change using the 2010 General Social Survey. We find no differences in concern for climate change between women who have children and those who do not. Modeling fertility, we find that having more children is associated with less concern for climate change for women but not men. .. , 

Our findings, that women report greater concern for global climate change than men, echo scores of previous studies of environmental concern. However, when looking at a popular explanation for this difference-the eco-mom theory we found no support for the notion that motherhood, in and of itself, explains women's higher levels of concern, even when using a measure of parenthood that is more encompassing than previous studies. Yet, when examining fertility, we find that the number of children a parent has is associated with decreased concern for global climate change for women (but not for men)... 

Other researchers have shown that fundamentalist Christians and Republicans tend to have lower average environmental concern. However, we control for Republican Party affiliation, fundamentalist Christian religious values, and frequency of religious attendance in our models. Even with our broader definition, we find no evidence to support the idea that women are motivated to care about global climate change because they have children, as the eco-mom theory asserts. 

Men's concern for climate change does not vary, regardless of the number of children they have. Thus, to the extent that men are concerned about global climate change, that concern does not appear to be motivated by their role as fathers. Women do demonstrate a relationship between concern for global climate change and number of children, and that relationship is negative. Although we can reasonably assume that those concerned about climate change may limit their fertility, this relationship should not produce gender differences. A more reasonable explanation for our finding is that having more children represents greater salience of traditional gender roles for women. In other words, having children (and more of them) potentially changes gender roles for women more than for men, and these roles are reflected in women’s declining concern for climate change. 

Transgenderism explained through quantum physics

Hope that clears it up.

via Wirecutter

The starkest differences in death rates are not by race or gender, but by level of education

The starkest differences in death rates are not by race or gender, but by level of education. People with only a high school degree or less have a *350%* higher annual rate of death than others. That's not a typo. pic.twitter.com/skX8MjK9dl

— Atul Gawande (@Atul_Gawande) December 28, 2018

On page 12 of the Pdf about MASS Death Report 2016 it says:

"Among Massachusetts residents ages 25-64, the death rate for those who completed high school or less was more than three times higher than the corresponding rate among those who completed education above high school (Table 5)." 

In light of the shocking male-chauvinistic Claas Relotius affair we propose a framework for feminist journalism

(2) recognizes gendered and colonialist approaches to pan-journalistic knowledge, (3) challenges these systems of scientific domination, and (4) provides alternative knowledge sources and research methods for journalism cum transcendental media.

— Straussian Obfuscator (@ErebusSagace) December 27, 2018

leading to more inclusive, diverse, and equitable journalistic and pan-ethno-engaging media more focused upon human relationships in today's global information matrix.

— Straussian Obfuscator (@ErebusSagace) December 27, 2018

Urgent call for a reconceptualization of the role of race and ethnicity in pornography

We feel it is our duty to point to an interesting paper:

Gender, Race, and Aggression in Mainstream Pornography.

Abstract 

The role of aggression in pornographic videos has been at the heart of many theoretical debates and empirical studies over the last four decades, with rates of reported aggression ranging widely. However, the interaction between gender and race in the production of aggressive pornographic contents remains understudied and undertheorized. We conducted a study of 172 popular free Internet pornographic videos, exploring gender and racial interactions and the depictions of men and women from various ethnic and racial groups in online pornography. Contrary to our theoretical expectations and to the findings of previous research, we found that videos featuring Black women were less likely to depict aggression than those featuring White women, while videos featuring Asian and Latina women were more likely to depict aggression. Our findings call for a reconceptualization of the role of race and ethnicity in pornography.

May your weekend be blessed.

Need a lawyer? Take a woman. Here is why

Women Act More Ethically Than Men When Representing Themselves — But Not When Representing Others

As "Snoopy" Miller said: "You know, in a situation like this, there's a high potentiality for the common motherfucker to bitch out." So having good representation is essential.

Research tells us a lot about why people behave unethically. For example, there is evidence that people tend to be more dishonest later in the day, because they’re more fatigued, and when they’re anxious, because they’re more likely to look out for themselves. Many of these studies, however, ... (it is copyrighted, blimey)

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The paper is here

“I won't let you down:” Personal ethical lapses arising from women’s advocating for others

Highlights

• Women's personal ethics are compromised when representing others instrategic interactions.
• Women’s ethical behavior in strategic interacyions is driven by anticipatory guilt due to social considerations.
• Women's ethhical behavior when advocating for others reflects the presumed ethical preferences of their constituents rather than their personal ethics.

Abstract

The current research examines whether women’s personal ethics are compromised when representing others in strategic interactions. Across five studies (n = 1337), we demonstrate that women’s ethical choices are more sensitive to whether they are representing themselves versus advocating for others compared to men’s ethical choices. We find that other-advocating women are more deceptive than self-advocating women, whereas men are just as likely to engage in morally questionable behaviors when representing themselves or others. We further show that women’s unethical behavior is driven by their anticipatory guilt as they seek to not let their constituents down in an advocacy role. Relative to men, women’s ethical behavior when advocating on behalf of others is especially likely to reflect the presumed ethical preferences of their constituents rather than solely a reflection of their own ethical preferences. Given women’s relatively high personal ethics, these results establish a risk to adopting an advocacy role for women: the social considerations inherent to advocacy put pressure on women to engage in deceptive behaviors that compromise their personal ethics.

Seems quite a crowded field of research.

Negotiating gender roles: Gender differences in assertive negotiating are mediated by women’s fear of backlash and attenuated when negotiating on behalf of others.

Abstract

The authors propose that gender differences in negotiations reflect women’s contextually contingent impression management strategies. They argue that the same behavior, bargaining assertively, is construed as congruent with female gender roles in some contexts yet incongruent in other contexts. Further, women take this contextual variation into account, adjusting their bargaining behavior to manage social impressions. A particularly important contextual variable is advocacy—whether bargaining on one’s own behalf versus on another’s behalf. In self-advocacy contexts, women anticipate that assertiveness will evoke incongruity evaluations, negative attributions, and subsequent “backlash”; hence, women hedge their assertiveness, using fewer competing tactics and obtaining lower outcomes. However, in other-advocacy contexts, women achieve better outcomes as they do not expect incongruity evaluations or engage in hedging. In a controlled laboratory experiment, the authors found that gender interacts with advocacy context in this way to determine negotiation style and outcomes. Additionally, process measures of anticipated attributions and backlash statistically mediated this interaction effect. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Anxious, threatened, and also unethical: How anxiety makes individuals feel threatened and commit unethical acts.

Abstract

People often experience anxiety in the workplace. Across 6 studies, we show that anxiety, both induced and measured, can lead to self-interested unethical behavior. In Studies 1 and 2, we find that compared with individuals in a neutral state, anxious individuals are more willing (a) to participate in unethical actions in hypothetical scenarios and (b) to engage in more cheating to make money in situations that require truthful self-reports. In Studies 3 and 4, we explore the psychological mechanism underlying unethical behaviors when experiencing anxiety. We suggest and find that anxiety increases threat perception, which, in turn, results in self-interested unethical behaviors. Study 5 shows that, relative to participants in the neutral condition, anxious individuals find their own unethical actions to be less problematic than similar actions of others. In Study 6, data from subordinate–supervisor dyads demonstrate that experienced anxiety at work is positively related with experienced threat and unethical behavior. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

And one advice at last, avoid people in the afternoon. Unless something wicked this way comes.

In the Afternoon, the Moral Slope Gets Slipperier

Being seen by others as incompetent is a better predictor of sexual harassment than one’s self-perceived incompetence.

There you have it, folks. Women, on the other hand, show no concern being viewed as incompetent. Who knew?

Feeling Powerful but Incompetent: Fear of Negative Evaluation Predicts Men’s Sexual Harassment of Subordinates

Abstract

Although research has examined the role of power in men’s likelihood of perpetrating sexual harassment against women, less is known about specific personality traits that might predict sexual harassment. Building upon theorizing that men are especially prone to engage in sexual harassment to the extent that their social status is threatened (Berdahl 2007a), we conducted three studies with samples of adults (Studies 1 and 3) and college students (Study 2). In Studies 1 and 3, we asked participants to indicate their likelihood of engaging in sexual harassment of subordinates across a variety of scenarios. In Study 2, we experimentally primed power and had participants choose to send either neutral or sexuality-related articles to an ostensibly real female participant. Results demonstrated that concerns about being perceived as incompetent (i.e., Fear of Negative Evaluation scores) positively predicted men’s sexual harassment of female subordinates. Among women, Fear of Negative Evaluation scores were unrelated to sexual harassment of male subordinates. Further, this relationship held controlling for Narcissism, Self-Esteem, and Generalized Self-Efficacy scores, suggesting that the fear that others would see oneself as incompetent was a better predictor of sexual harassment than one’s self-perceived incompetence. Implications for the relationship between power, personality, and sexual harassment, and for interventions designed to curb sexual harassment, are discussed.