Biography:Melissa Hines
Melissa Hines | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | UCLA, Princeton University |
| Known for | Neuroscientist, Gender studies |
| Awards | Beckman Young Investigators Award[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Melissa Hines is a neuroscientist and Professor at the University of Cambridge. She studies the development of gender, with particular focus on how the interaction of prenatal and postnatal experience shape brain development and behavior.
Education
Hines received a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Princeton University.[2] She was in the first group of women enrolled as undergraduates, which could have inspired an interest in gender.[3][4] She received a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles.[5] The focus of her thesis was the gender-related behaviour of women whose mothers had taken the synthetic oestrogen diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy.[6]
Research
Hines completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroendocrinology and Neuroscience at the UCLA Brain Research Institute.[4] She investigated hormonal influences on brain development in rodents there and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she was a visiting scientist.[7] She received the Shephard Ivory Franz Award for Distinguished Teaching at UCLA.[8] After her postdoctoral fellowship, she was appointed as an Assistant and then Associate Professor at UCLA. During her time at UCLA she trained and was licensed as a clinical psychologist.[7]
Hines moved to the UK and joined City University as a Professor of Psychology in 1996.[9] She is a Chartered Counseling Psychologist in the UK (British Psychological Society).[10] In 2006 she joined the University of Cambridge and Churchill College, Cambridge.[6] She is Director of the University of Cambridges's Gender Development Research Centre.[4]
Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of sex/gender differences in human brain and behaviour.[11][12] Based on findings that male and female vervet monkeys show toy preferences that resemble those seen in children, Hines and Alexander suggested that "sex differences in toy preferences can arise independent of the social and cognitive mechanisms thought by many to be the primary influences on toy preferences".[13] Other research indicates that girls with high levels of testosterone are less interested in dolls, and more interested in toy vehicles, than are other girls.[13][14] She has appeared on a discussion panel with autism researcher Simon Baron Cohen, who also is interested in hormonal influences on human gender development.[15][16] Their results have, however, sometimes differed from one another's.[17]
Public engagement
Hines was the President of the International Academy of Sex Research.[8] She is the author of Brain Gender, published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.
She spoke at the Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge "Women's Word" festival in 2011.[18] In 2013 she appeared on BBC Radio 4 discussing the spat between Suzanne Moore and transgender rights activists.[19] In 2014 she was an invited speaker at the Cambridge Science Festival. She is a writer for The Conversation.[20]
References
- ↑ "Melissa Hines". http://www.beckman-foundation.org/beckman-young-investigators/melissa-hines. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ↑ "Professor of Psychology, Melissa Hines — Department of Psychology" (in en). https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/about-us/athena-swan/celebration-of-women/prof-melissa-hines.
- ↑ "When Women Came to Princeton" (in en). Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2016-10-18. https://paw.princeton.edu/article/when-women-came-princeton.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "People — Gender Development Research Centre" (in en). https://www.gdrc.psychol.cam.ac.uk/people.
- ↑ "Melissa Hines – The UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics" (in en-US). http://socgen.ucla.edu/people/melissa-hines/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "People – Churchill College". https://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/people/view/melissa-hines/.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Melissa., Hines, (2004). Brain gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195188363. OCLC 51804960. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51804960.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Hormones, brain, and behavior. Pfaff, Donald W., 1939-, Elsevier Science (Firm) (2nd electronic ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press. 2009. ISBN 008088783X. OCLC 449286151. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/449286151.
- ↑ "Home Page". http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/m.hines/.
- ↑ "Good practice guidelines for the assessment and treatment of adults with gender dysphoria". http://www.gires.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CR181_Nov15.pdf.
- ↑ Cahill, Larry. "His Brain, Her Brain" (in en). Scientific American 21 (2s): 4–11. doi:10.1038/scientificamericanbrain0512-4. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/his-brain-her-brain-2012-10-23/.
- ↑ poppy sebag-montefiore (2013-08-09), The Brain and the Mind - Discussion 5 of 6: The Gendered Brain, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydl3VaaqMsY&feature=youtu.be, retrieved 2018-02-03
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Hines, Melissa; Alexander, Gerianne M.. "Monkeys, girls, boys and toys: A confirmation". Hormones and Behavior 54 (3): 478–479. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.05.012. PMC 2643016. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0018506X08001657.
- ↑ Clare Bailey (2011-05-09), Clare Rayner BBC Breakfast: Why is pink the colour of choice for girls?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwb8FNlTt8&feature=youtu.be, retrieved 2018-02-03
- ↑ Ltd., Thomas Dale of D Taled Designs. "The Brain and the Mind". http://www.thebrainandthemind.co.uk/The_Talks/Talk5/.
- ↑ "Have you a male or a female brain?". 2014-11-29. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandlife/relationships/have-you-a-male-or-a-female-brain-299884.html.
- ↑ Schaffer, Amanda (2010-10-21). "The Last Word on Fetal T" (in en-US). Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/10/the_last_word_on_fetal_t.html.
- ↑ "Is there any such thing as the female brain?" (in en). University of Cambridge. 2011-06-22. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/is-there-any-such-thing-as-the-female-brain.
- ↑ "Who Decides if I'm a Woman?, Analysis - BBC Radio 4" (in en-GB). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rbrtd.
- ↑ Hines, Melissa. "There's no good reason to push pink toys on girls" (in en). The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/theres-no-good-reason-to-push-pink-toys-on-girls-15830.
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