Rebecca M. Jordan-Young

Recommendations for sex/gender neuroimaging research: key principles and implications for research design, analysis, and interpretation

Neuroimaging (NI) technologies are having increasing impact in the study of complex cognitive and social processes. In this emerging field of social cognitive neuroscience, a central goal should be to increase the understanding of the interaction between the neurobiology of the individual and the environment in which humans develop and function. The study of sex/gender is often a focus for NI research, and may be motivated by a desire to better understand general developmental principles, mental health problems that show female-male disparities, and gendered differences in society. In order to ensure the maximum possible contribution of NI research to these goals, we draw attention to four key principles—overlap, mosaicism, contingency and entanglement—that have emerged from sex/gender research and that should inform NI research design, analysis and interpretation. We discuss the implications of these principles in the form of constructive guidelines and suggestions for researchers, editors, reviewers and science communicators.

Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity…and the rigid problem of sex

Why is popular understanding of female–male differences still based on rigid models of development, even though contemporary developmental sciences emphasize plasticity? Is it because the science of sex differences still works from the same rigid models?

Sex, health, and athletes

Recent policy introduced by the International Olympic Committee to regulate hyperandrogenism in female athletes could lead to unnecessary treatment and may be unethical, argue Rebecca Jordan-Young, Peter Sönksen, and Katrina Karkazis

Journal of neuroscience research policy on addressing sex as a biological variable: Comments, clarifications, and elaborations

Gina Rippon,* Rebecca Jordan-Young, Anelis Kaiser, Daphna Joel, and Cordelia Fine Aston Brain Centre, Aston University, Birmingham, UK* Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA Social Psychology and Social Neuroscience, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel History & Philosophy of Science Program, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Rip up new Olympic sex test rules

Elite female athletes with naturally raised testosterone levels face new sex testing rules which are scientifically flawed and manifestly unjust, say Katrina Karkazis and Rebecca Jordan-Young