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Sandra Lipsitz Bem

Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • psychology

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

  • social construction of gender and sexuality
  • clinical psychology and psychopathology

Educational Background

  • 1961-1965: B.A. in Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 1965-1968: Ph. D. in Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Books
    • Bem, S. L. (1993) The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
    • Bem, S. L. (1998) An Unconventional Family. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  • Articles
    • Bem, S. L. (1967) Verbal self-control: The establishment of effective self-instruction. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74, 485-491.
    • Bem, D. J., & Bem, S. L. (1968) Nativism revisited: A review of Eric H. Lenneberg’s “Biological Foundations of Language.” Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 11, 497-501.
    • Bem, S. L. (1970) The role of comprehension in children's problem solving. Developmental Psychology, 2, 351-358.
    • Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1970) Case study of a nonconscious ideology: Training the woman to know her place. In D. J. Bem, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Human Affairs. Belmont, California: Brooks/Cole.
    • Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1970) Training the women to know her place. Psychology Today.
    • Bem, S. L. (1972) Psychology looks at sex roles: Where have all the androgynous people gone? Paper presented at the U.C.L.A. Symposium on Sex Roles.
    • Bem, S. L. (1973) But what can woman become? A review of J. Bardwick’s “Readings on the Psychology of Women”. Contemporary Psychology, 18, 450-451.
    • Bem, S. L., & Bem, D. J. (1973) Does sex-biased job advertising “aid and abet” sex discrimination? Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 3, 6-18.
    • Bem, S. L. (1974) The measurement of psychological androgyny. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 155-162.
    • Bem, S. L. (1975) Sex role adaptability: One consequence of psychological androgyny. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31, 634-643.
    • Bem, S. L. (1975) Androgyny vs. the tight little lives of fluffy women and chesty men. Psychology Today, 9, 58-62.
    • Bem, S. L., Martyna, W., & Watson, C. (1976) Sex typing and androgyny: Further explorations of the expressive domain. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 1016-1023.
    • Bem, S. L., & Lenney, E. (1976) Sex typing and the avoidance of cross-sex behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33, 48-54.
    • Bem, S. L. (1977) On the utility of alternative procedures for assessing psychological androgyny. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 45, 196-205.