Summit
2025 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2025
What Makes a ‘Man’ and a ‘Woman’?”: Measuring Essentialist Beliefs about Gonadal Hormones (EBAGHs)
- Connery Knox
University of Waterloo - Yan Hui Yee
University of Waterloo - Neil Hester
University of Waterloo - Christopher Burris
St. Jerome's University
Abstract
We created a unidimensional measure of essentialist beliefs about gonadal hormones (EBAGHs). Higher EBAGH scorers claimed superior sex-congruent testosterone and estrogen levels relative to their same-sex peers irrespective of the levels’ perceived healthiness, and EBAGH endorsement was linked to the self-reported influence of mainstream entertainment and social media.
Gender
