John Barry

Dr John Barry is a chartered psychologist, co-founder of the Male Psychology Network, and co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health.

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COVID-19's Gender Gap

This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.

John Barry

22 Apr 2020 · 5 min read

How Feminism Has Constrained Our Understanding of Gender

Feminist research into sex differences has typically concluded that the number of sex differences is small, and therefore unimportant, thus making the logical error that a small number of differences means those differences are inconsequential.

John Barry

8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

We Need Guidelines for Working with Men, but Not the APA Guidelines

This outcome highlights an alarming gender difference in outcome that should galvanise psychologists to take gender-sensitivity very seriously indeed.

John Barry

13 Feb 2019 · 4 min read