Art of Manliness Podcast #86: Demonic Males With Richard Wrangham

Why are men (generally) more violent then women? Why are men (generally) drawn to competition and achieving status? Is the idea that masculinity means having courage and strength just a complete cultural construct or is there a biological underpinning to it?


http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/10/24/demonic-males-podcast/

The Social Mind Summer School

The Traits That Make Up Human-beings Unique
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150706-the-small-list-of-things-that-make-humans-unique


What Makes Humans Unique? (III) Self-domestication, Social Cognition, and Physical Cognition
http://www.replicatedtypo.com/what-makes-humans-unique-iii-self-domestication-social-cognition-and-physical-cognition/1464.html

How Are Humans Unique?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/magazine/25wwln-essay-t.html?_r=0

Conformity Is Unique To Humans, Integral In Most Social Interactions, And It Begins As Early As 2 Years Old

http://www.medicaldaily.com/conformity-unique-humans-integral-most-social-interactions-and-it-begins-early-2-years-old-308886

Things unique to humans
http://www.metaprimate.com/unique-to-human/

Redefine Intelligence
http://upliftconnect.com/humans-arent-intelligent-creatures-planet/

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/humans-smartest-animal.htm



http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(10)00181-9?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627310001819%3Fshowall%3Dtrue&cc=y=

What makes us, humans unique in the animal kingdom is our superior social skills. We are highly social creatures capable of empathy, compassion, justice, equality, cooperation and altruism, yet we are also capable of making unimaginable destruction for ourselves, be violent, discriminate the “others” and create wars and genocides. How can our ‘social minds’ differ in such drastic ways? How did we become social creatures in the first place and why are some people more socially skilled than others? 

Teaching Culture and Social Mind - Online Free Library

http://www.wwu.edu/culture/contents_complete.htm

Sage Podcast - Men and Masculinities: Taking Control of Sex? Hegemonic Masculinity, Technology, and Internet Pornography

http://sagepodcast.sage-publications.libsynpro.com/men-and-masculinities-taking-control-of-sex-hegemonic-masculinity-technology-and-internet-pornography

Sage Podcast - Rebel Manhood

http://sagepodcast.sage-publications.libsynpro.com/rebel-manhood-the-hegemonic-masculinity-of-the-southern-rock-music-revival

Sage Podcast Ambivalent Sexism

http://sagepodcast.sage-publications.libsynpro.com/ambivalent-sexism-revisited

Situations affording preference for honourable/traditional qualities in men.

What I have in mind is to run a study where we can manipulate the context of violence/bullying/competition among males for mating/scare economical resources, etc. which would all potentially raise the importance of masculine honour and preference for traditional masculine qualities in males. It is very much culture of honour related. If more than a few students write, I will think of a range of studies too. Also I remembered now in Cologne when the gang sexual assaults happened, women asked (German-looking) men if they could stay near them so they would feel safe. One German man said he was very pissed off that they were attacking women, and he started punching one of the perpetrator. So German men can have honour if the context affords it. 

So rather than man responding to masculinty threats (feedback given that they are feminine) by more endorsement of violence, wars, risk-taking, aggression, competition, etc. This research will reverse the order of the input/output and show that in the situations where there is violence, wars, aggression,  social chaos/disorganization, unlawful, antidemocracy, scarce economic resources, intra-male competition, etc. will lead to the importance given for masculine honour, and the honourable/traditional male target will be liked more.

Social psychology of traditional manhood and masculine honour (Ayse Uskul): The focus of most social psychology research on gender has been on the negative consequences of having a traditional masculine identity. This has raised scholarly criticisms for essentializing male-female difference and ignoring the differences within gender categories. Some people even said that the idea of hegemonic masculinity is "an invention of New Age psychologists" determined to portray that men are excessively macho (Connell & Messerchimidt, 2005, p. 891). This project attempts to further understand the anti-social and pro-social aspects of traditional and honourable masculinity. When and why do modern and traditional masculinities emerge? Under what situations, the traditional masculine qualities are functional? When do women like and dislike the traditional man? Final year students can address these types of questions by conducting online/lab experiments. Students can work individually or in pairs to collect data from RPS. Suitable for a group of ??? students.

Reference is needed:

Connell, R. W., & Messerschmidt, J. W. (2005). Hegemonic masculinity rethinking the concept. Gender & Society, 19(6), 829-859.

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Why do women like honourable men?

Manipulate the degree of social chaos and violence
Social chaos condition: high salience of war, violence, competition (Istanbul/Cairo style)
Social order and peace condition: everyone is in peace, calm flowers, trees, colours, birds (Leiden style)

Study 1 (self-report attitude measures):
DV:
Honour ideology for manhood (can ask pre- and post-test as well!)
Masculine norms inventory

Study 2 (judgment of male targets)
create a male target with masculine honour qualitoes vs. non-honour qualities or masculine vs. anti-masculine

Study 3 (Control for liberal/radical feminism, gender-role beliefs, etc.)