AUTHOR=Glick Peter 

TITLE=Social psychological research on gender, sexuality, and relationships: reflections on contemporary scientific and cultural challenges

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Social Psychology

VOLUME=1

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/social-psychology/articles/10.3389/frsps.2023.1331160

DOI=10.3389/frsps.2023.1331160

ISSN=2813-7876

ABSTRACT=<p>This inaugural article considers two types of challenges – scientific and cultural – facing researchers who study gender, sexualities, and relationships. For the scientific challenges, I focus on the tension between constructing parsimonious theories while simultaneously accounting for the complexity of gender, sexuality, and relationships. I focus on ambivalent sexism theory as an example that illustrates both the advantages and disadvantages of parsimonious theories before turning to a topic for which achieving parsimony has been elusive: gender identity. Finally, I address the current, highly politicized cultural environment, addressing attempts to suppress gender and sexual diversity, as well as to silence teaching and research on these topics.</p>