J. Michael Bailey

Education and career:



Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Washington University in 1979

Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989

Professor at Northwestern University from 1989 until now

Research Interests:



Sexual Orientation, Gender Nonconformity, Sexual Arousal, Behavior Genetics, Evolutionary Psychology

Selected Publications:



Bailey, J. M. (2003). The man who would be queen. Washington DC: The Joseph Henry Press.



Chivers, M. C., Rieger, G., Latty, E. A., & Bailey, J. M. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. Psychological Science, 15, 736-744.



Safron, A., Barch, B., Bailey, J. M., Gitelman, D. R., Parrish, T. B., & Reber, P. J. (2007). Neural correlates of sexual arousal in homosexual and heterosexual men. Behavioral Neuroscience, 121, 237-248.



Rieger, G., Linsenmeier, J. A. W., Gygax, L., & Bailey J. M. (2008). Sexual orientation and childhood gender nonconformity: Evidence from home videos. Developmental Psychology, 44, 46-58.



Bailey, J. M. (2009). What is sexual orientation and do women have one? In D. A. Hope (Ed.). The 54th Nebraska Symposium on Motivation: Contemporary perspectives on gay, lesbian, and bisexual identities, 54, 43-63.