In The News: Department of Psychology
The pending nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have royal watchers brushing up on royal naming practices and asking ‘what’s in a name?’
The fundraising effort in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history has been muted compared with other tragedies.
Men are perceived as powerless and less masculine if their wives choose not to take their surnames after marriage.
"I now pronounce you man and wife, you may kiss the bride... etc and so forth." This is followed shortly after by the MC announcing the newly married couple, "Now, introducing for the first time, Mr. and Mrs. Smith..."
If women do not take their husband's surname, it is sometimes perceived as "disempowering" the husband.
Today in “Why is this still a thing?”: Keeping your maiden name could affect how people view your husband.
While taking their husband's surname was once the norm, women are increasingly choosing to keep their maiden name after marriage.
Once upon a time it was considered custom for women to take their husband’s name after marrying.
Visiting my family in the Midwest over Thanksgiving, I returned to a topic that’s become very familiar ever since I became engaged a little more than a year ago: Whether I plan to change my last name after I get married.
Recent research conducted by Rachael Robnett of the University of Nevada and published in the journal Sex Roles has unearthed some truly disheartening things about how whether a heterosexual woman changes her name upon marriage affects how people think of her husband. It’s yet another example of how sexism is bad for everyone, no matter what gender you identify as — and a reminder of how much work we still have left to do to dismantle the cultural tyranny of rigidly-defined gender roles.
What’s in a name? A lot, according to researchers from the University of Nevada.
What’s in a last name? Muscle, apparently. Men married to women who opt to keep their maiden names after tying the knot are often viewed as less masculine and lacking pants in the relationship, a new study finds.