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• dragonc - Jun 19 2006 | news, male, masculinity

  Ha!

  Quoted: ITHACA, N.Y. -- Threaten a man's masculinity and he will assume more macho attitudes, according to a study by a Cornell University researcher.

  "I found that if you made men more insecure about their masculinity, they displayed more homophobic attitudes, tended to support the Iraq War more and would be more willing to purchase an SUV over another type of vehicle," said Robb Willer, a sociology doctoral candidate at Cornell. Willer is presenting his findings Aug. 15 at the American Sociological Association's 100th annual meeting in Philadelphia.

  "Masculine overcompensation is the idea that men who are insecure about their masculinity will behave in an extremely masculine way as compensation. I wanted to test this idea and also explore whether overcompensation could help explain some attitudes like support for war and animosity to homosexuals," Willer said.

  • brent.meyer - Jun 19 2006
    

    This just in: 2+2=4

    In other words, isn't this kind of common knowledge at this point?

  • dragonc - Jun 19 2006
    

    Sometimes scientists like to run experiments to test out "common knowledge." It is called Research, or, I got the data to back it up, beecheez.
• zron - Dec 17 2005 | psychology, academia, science, sex, gender, masculinity, imported:del.icio.us