Gender and Sexuality Development

Dr. Doug P. VanderLaan is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Collaborator Scientist in Child and Youth Psychiatry at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. His research examines within-sex variation in sexual orientation and gender expression development from a biopsychosocial perspective. Dr. Wang Ivy Wong is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Principal Investigator of the Gender Development Laboratory. Her research focuses on gender development and social cognition across the life span. She is interested in the social, cognitive, and biological foundations and consequences of gendered behavior and social interactions, and the expression and consequences of these issues in daily life.

• 1-Measuring Sex Differences and Similarities.- 2-Prenatal Steroid Hormones and Sex Differences in Juvenile Rhesus Macaque Behavior.- 3-Biological Approaches to Studying Gender Development.- 4-Social Influences on Gender Development: Theory and Context.- 5-Contemporary Cognitive Approaches to Gender Development: New Schemas, New Directions, and New Conceptualizations of Gender.- 6-Origins and Consequences of Childhood Gender Segregation: Towards an Integrative Developmental Systems Model.- 7-Gender, Toys, and Play: How Gendered Early Experiences Shape Later Development.- 8-Family Gender Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence.- 9-Gender Stereotypes and Education.- 10-Gender-Based Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence.- 11-Gender and Sexuality in Disorders/Differences of Sex Development.- 12-Sexuality Development in Childhood.- 13-Sexual Pleasure in Adolescence: A Developmental Sexual Embodiment Perspective.- 14-Pornography Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.- 15-A Reviewof Theoretical Models and Lifespan Approaches to the Study of Sexual Offending.- 16-Learned but Not Chosen: A Reward Competition Feedback Model for the Origins of Sexual Preferences and Orientations.- 17-Carving the Biodevelopment of Same-Sex Sexual Orientation at Its Joints.- 18-Mental Health Among LGBT Youth.- 19-Asexuality: When Sexual Attraction is Lacking.- 20-Erotic Target Identity Inversions.- 21-Consensual Non-monogamy from a Developmental Perspective.