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Psychology of Men & Masculinities® is devoted to the dissemination of scholarship that advances the psychology of men and masculinities. This discipline is defined broadly as the study of how boys' and men's lives are connected to both gender and sex as well as the cultural and individual meanings associated with boys and men. The field encompasses the social construction of gender, sex differences and similarities, and biological processes.

We are interested in work that arises from both applied specialties (e.g., clinical, counseling, school, health, and I/O psychology) and foundational areas (e.g., social, personality, developmental, cognitive, and biological psychology). We also welcome manuscripts from other social science disciplines, such as social work, sociology, public health, and media science.

We accept empirical (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods), conceptual, and review manuscripts. We are particularly interested in meta-analyses, review manuscripts that synthesize and critically evaluates a body of literature, and conceptual manuscripts that propose new theories, constructs, or ideas.

Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• biological factors influencing men
• masculine norms and ideologies
• gender role strain, stress, discrepancy, and conflict
• fathering
• men’s sexism
• applications of intersectionality
• boys and men of color
• gay and bisexual men
• boys’ experiences of and perpetration of bullying
• assessment and measurement issues
• mental and physical health
• violence and sexual aggression
• body image and muscularity
• sexual development, health, and dysfunction
• addictive behaviors
• boys' and men's relationships with girls and women and with each other

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