Men’s Issues and Problems

More than 40 years ago, Philip Zimbardo oversaw the Stanford Prison Experiment—one of psychology’s best-known and most controversial studies. Now Zimbardo is interested in the changing ... Read More

Men want sex and women want love, right? That’s what dozens of studies have set out to prove, often resulting in salacious headlines and lots of publicity. In one famous study, an ... Read More

Parenting is a strange deal. It’s one role in life where there is a strong blueprint—we were all children once, and someone got us through those years—but there’s no easing in to ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Agriculture places the cost of raising a child born in 2013 at $245,000—a figure that leaves many parents looking for discounts anywhere they’re available. ... Read More

The notion that women are more emotional—and therefore less rational—than men can be found everywhere from self-help books to Internet message boards. Women’s supposed lack of ... Read More

A popular stereotype holds that women are the ones eager to settle down, have lavish weddings, and then birth and care for babies. A recent piece in New York magazine’s The Cut calls ... Read More

If you feel exhausted after the annual springing forward of clocks, you’re not alone. Even a small loss of time can cause exhaustion that’s harmful to relationships, a study ... Read More

Feminism, the belief that men and women are equal and the political movement designed to support this equality, is relatively unpopular among men, with only 16% identifying as feminists. ... Read More

There’s a broad assumption in our culture that women are just more emotionally intelligent than men. But women’s superior emotional intelligence is anything but a settled fact, ... Read More

Opponents of gender equality have long argued that both men and women lose something when the sexes are treated equally and share duties. The results of a research project that dates back ... Read More

Men who gain weight during a partner’s pregnancy are often the butt of jokes, derided for using their partner’s pregnancy as an “excuse” to gain weight. For some men, though, ... Read More

For decades, women’s advocates have argued that sexualized advertisements of women harm women’s self-esteem and increase gender disparities. According to new research, though, ... Read More