Excited to be quoted in this recent piece in the Atlantic!

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · last wk.

The manosphere is trying to sell a version of masculinity based on the subjugation of others—and it's becoming an ideology all its own, Adam Serwer argues. theatln.tc/gnK7CsDP

Pete Hegseth’s new military plan is misguided at best and harmful at worst. My piece for @us.theconversation.com 👇

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 2w ago

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels. theconversation.com/more-testost...

More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man: Decades of research undercut Defense Sec. Hegseth’s core claim that more testosterone means a more aggressive, dominant, masculine man. Analysis by Prof. @adamstanaland.bsky.social theconversation.com/more-testost...

More testosterone won’t make a better soldier or a tougher man – aggression and strength drive T levels, not the other way around

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is requiring service members to screen for low testosterone levels. Ironically, the military lifestyle itself is more likely to lower T levels.

theconversation.com

Please repost — great opportunity for someone considering graduate school or a research career! Full-time Cognitive Science Lab Manager across multiple awesome labs here at @urichmond.bsky.social. Happy to answer questions or direct them! richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

Great article from @avial.bsky.social and @adamstanaland.bsky.social about how boys are motivated to avoid femininity by age 5. Their results show that the problematic trend that "masculine" things are cool for everyone but "feminine" things are only for girls/women starts early.

Gender conformity starts young – and boys and girls fall in line in different ways

Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.

theconversation.com

Joint first authors by @adamstanaland.bsky.social and @avial.bsky.social also wrote a lovely companion piece in The Conversation: theconversation.com/gender-confo...

Gender conformity starts young – and boys and girls fall in line in different ways

Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.

theconversation.com

Congratulations, Eric! Couldn’t be more thrilled to have you just down the road

Eric Shuman@ericmshuman.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm really excited to announce that I will be joining @uvapsychology.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology starting this fall!

So proud of my honors students presenting their thesis work! Can’t wait to continue this important experimental work on different behavioral forms of aggression + individual differences in men’s romantic conflict responses @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025

Day 1 @spspnews.bsky.social was a big success! Esha gave a great talk on gesturing in interracial interactions, @kirbylam.bsky.social presented a poster on masculine norm violations, and we had a fun lab social hour with one our alums @adamstanaland.bsky.social! #SPSP2025