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Cordelia Fine: Let Toys Be Toys: The Science and Ethics of Gendered Toy Marketing
Cordelia Fine: Let Toys Be Toys: The Science and Ethics of Gendered Toy Marketing
ABSTRACT The gendered marketing of toys is under considerable scrutiny, with consumer-led campaigns against it invariably giving rise to vigorous debates. Critics argue that gendered toy marketing is socially and developmentally harmful; defenders see it as reflecting and responding to boys’ and girls’ fundamentally different interests. In this talk, based on work co-authored with Charles […]
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Cordelia Fine: The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking
Cordelia Fine: The myth of the Lehman Sisters? Sex, testosterone, and financial risk-taking
ABSTRACT There is growing scientific interest in the role of testosterone in financial risk-taking – a topic of considerable public interest too, with suggestions that there is “too much testosterone on Wall Street”. Both research and debate is often grounded in an implicit model in which testosterone is presumed to be the proximal mechanism underlying […]