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- Masculinity is associated with anger. In a 2014 study from the University of South Australia, Michelle Wharton and colleagues looked at the relationship between masculinity and anger arousal.
- When men’s masculinity is threatened, they react with increased anger. A 2015 study by Julia Dahl and colleagues from Penn State University found that when masculinity was challenged, men reacted with more anger and with an increased endorsement of social dominance over women.
- Challenging men’s testosterone levels yields a similar effect. Similar findings come from a 2016 study from the University of Gdansk, where Kosakowska-Berezecka and colleagues found that telling men they have low levels of testosterone served as a threat to masculinity and led to engagement in more “gender-stereotypical behaviors,” like getting into physical fights.
- Masculinity is also related to right-wing authoritarian attitudes. According to a 2014 study from Bradley Goodnight and colleagues at Georgia State University, different dimensions of masculinity are predictive of right-wing authoritarian attitudes and anti-gay anger.
Apr 24, 2015 · How ritualized violence is a benefit to society. Why some sociologists think we need to bring back the duel. Why we like to watch other men fight and be violent. Why men like to fight more than women. And much more! The Professor in the Cage hits on a lot of the themes we’ve written about on AoM.
May 1, 2021 · Report: Average Male 4,000% Less Effective In Fights Than They Imagine. Katty Kay and Claire Shipman write in The Atlantic about the “confidence gap” which separates the sexes. They explain: “Success, it turns out, correlates just as closely with confidence as it does with competence.
Feb 3, 2012 · Environment. Why Are Men So Violent? Are men warriors by nature? History, not evolution, may explain male violence. Posted February 3, 2012|Reviewed by Jessica Schrader. It will not have gone...
Feb 5, 2016 · How Men Are Evolved For Fighting According to Science. Men seem to be drawn to combative athletics and physical jobs. Violent sports like mixed martial arts remain male dominated, and 85.5% of active duty military members are men. Statistics also show that men are more likely to commit violent crimes than women.
Feb 1, 2021 · What could explain why some men feel more threatened than others by phrases that question their manhood? A team of researchers set out to investigate. Researchers at Duke University in the US studied a very specific phenomenon: why some, but not all, men respond aggressively when their manhood is threatened.
Aug 25, 2021 · Avoiding confrontation isn't always a bad thing. Here, experts explain 18 personality traits of people who hate conflict.
