James D Weinrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James D Weinrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | James D |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinrich |
| SIGNATURE | WEINRICH J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0621-0642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Past
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid arose in a particular place and time during which scholars were noting the multidimensional nature of many concepts pertaining to sex and gender. The Grid embodies the notion that sexual orientation is more multifaceted than any single number can reflect, as well as the observation that each facet can change over time. At roughly the same time, scholars were also noting that phenomena that had been thought to be …
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Ideal
As we turn our attention to the ideal measurement of sexual orientation, what questions should we ask? How do we determine the best items, the best phrasing, the optimal order? How do we address the very different needs of clinicians (more information, please), ivory-tower academics (not too many variables, please), and those who write the questions for large-scale, government-funded surveys (simplicity and clarity, please)? The consensus: Most f…
On the Design, Development, and Testing of Sexual Identity Questions: A Discussion and Analysis of Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan's Work for the National Health Interview Survey
A remarkable article by Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan, working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deserves wider attention. They developed two sexual identity-related questions for the (U.S.) National Health Interview Survey: one pertaining to gender identity and one to sexual orientation. They conducted 386 in-depth cognitive interviews and concluded that there are substantial problems with existing sexual identity questions…
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Present
To understand the current state of research on sexual orientation, we need to address some important questions. Is the distribution of sexual orientation discrete or continuous? Is it best measured with one dimension or two—or more? Just what is sexual orientation, anyway? When studying sexual orientation, should we focus on the beloved, not the lover (i.e., interpret attraction as a function of the attractive person, rather than the person who i…
Cluster Analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples: When Bisexuality Is Not Bisexuality
We used a cluster analysis to empirically address whether sexual orientation is a continuum or can usefully be divided into categories such as heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual using scores on the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) in three samples: groups of men and women recruited through bisexual groups and the Internet (Main Study men; Main Study women), and men recruited for a clinical study of HIV and the nervous system (HIV Study me…
Homogeneous Gynephiles and Heterogeneous Androphiles: A Factor Analysis of Differences and Similarities in Attractions to the Sexes as a Function of Sexual Orientation
What is it about men and women that make them sexually attractive to those people who find them attractive? Which parts of the body? Which sexual acts? We address this question empirically through a factor analysis of people's ratings of the attractiveness of women's and men's body parts, and of particular sex acts with men and women. Participants of a wide variety of sexual orientations (including a rich sample of bisexuals) rated body parts (by…
Notes on the Kinsey Scale
Scholars are familiar with the 7 points of the Kinsey Scale (KS)—whole integers, 0 to 6—but are unaware of several facts about the KS. First, most ratings were not self-ratings, but assigned by interviewers after the interview. Second, there was an X category given to individuals who did not respond sexually to either heterosexual or homosexual stimuli. Third, part of the subsample with extensive homosexual experience was asked a specific self-ra…
Data Analysis Terminable and Interminable: My Collaboration with Fritz Klein
The author began using Fritz Klein's Sexual Orientation Grid in research studies soon after he moved to San Diego, where Fritz lived for many years. The author and Dr. Fritz began a study that was partially published in an early issue of the Journal of Bisexuality and whose data analyses are ongoing. This article summarizes and reflects on that research
Bi-Gay, Bi-Straight, and Bi-Bi: Three Bisexual Subgroups Identified Using Cluster Analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
Are heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexuals arbitrary divisions on a continuum of sexual orientation, or is it useful to divide people into discrete categories? Our cluster analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) addresses this important question. In two Internet-recruited samples (women, n = 786; men, n = 1,017) we chose a five-cluster classification (Heterosexual, Bi-Heterosexual, Bi-Bisexual, Bi-Homosexual/Lesbian, and Homosexua…
Validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
To evaluate the validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB) for studies of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, 514 men were studied who were divided among four categories: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Group A (N = 272), CDC-B (N = 81), CDC-C (N = 47), and uninfected male controls (N = 114). The QWB and a variety of medical, neuropsychological, and biochemical measures were administered to all partic…
Is gender dysphoria dysphoric? Elevated depression and anxiety in gender dysphoric and nondysphoric homosexual and bisexual men in an HIV sample
Biological Research on Sexual Orientation: A Critique of the Critics
Evolutionary biologists are tired of being accused of being too biologically deterministic, by critics who have little understanding of what biological or evolutionary theories actually imply. Misunderstandings came about because social-science disciplines often do not share evolutionary biology's tendency to build into their models multiple "normal" paths of development. Sociobiologists first explained homosexuality adaptively because they first…
Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men
Psychopathology and social functioning in men prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Previous research has suggested increased psychopathology in prenatally diethylstilbestrol (DES)-exposed persons. The current study compares the psychiatric histories and social functioning of 27 men with a history of high-dose prenatal DES exposure and their unexposed brothers. We expected DES subjects to show greater lifetime psychopathology and poorer social functioning than controls. Both groups showed high rates of lifetime depression, lifet…
The language of gay men's sexual behavior: An addendum
A factor analysis of the Klein sexual orientation Grid in two disparate samples
Effects of recalled childhood gender nonconformity on adult genitoerotic role and Aids exposure
Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy
The Definition and Scope of Sexual Orientation
The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part II. Limerent and lusty sexual attractions and the nature of bisexuality
I propose a theory that puts the notion of two sexual attractions into a precise, testable form, and then I mesh it with the periodic table model of the gender transpositions described previously (Pillard & Weinrich, 1987). I define a limerent sexual attraction, active in eroticizing the physical and personality characteristics of a particular Limerent Object, and a lusty sexual attraction, active in producing erotic arousal when encountering a n…
The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part I. A theory based on masculinization and defeminization of the brain
Students of human sexuality have long tried to make sense of atypical masculinity, femininity, sexual object choice, gender identity, or clothing choice. In Part I of this paper, we propose a theory to organize and to make sensible most of the major facts about these gender transpositions—a periodic table model of the gender transpositions. People have neural substrates that have been subjected to particular combinations of two distinct biobehavi…
Transsexuals, homosexuals, and sissy boys: On the mathematics of follow‐up studies
Toward a Sociobiological Theory of the Emotions
Nonreproduction, Homosexuality, Transsexualism, and Intelligence: I. A Systematic Literature Search
The relationship between various forms of nonreproduction (especially homosexuality) and intelligence (as measured by IQ and other tests) is investigated by a systematic review of the literature, selecting studies without regard to the direction of their findings. Most studies found the more homosexual subject groups' scores to be higher than those of the more heterosexual controls, and all exceptions to this trend are concentrated in one subgrou…
Effects of recalled childhood gender nonconformity on adult genitoerotic role and Aids exposure
Bi-Gay, Bi-Straight, and Bi-Bi: Three Bisexual Subgroups Identified Using Cluster Analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
Are heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexuals arbitrary divisions on a continuum of sexual orientation, or is it useful to divide people into discrete categories? Our cluster analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) addresses this important question. In two Internet-recruited samples (women, n = 786; men, n = 1,017) we chose a five-cluster classification (Heterosexual, Bi-Heterosexual, Bi-Bisexual, Bi-Homosexual/Lesbian, and Homosexua…
The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part I. A theory based on masculinization and defeminization of the brain
Students of human sexuality have long tried to make sense of atypical masculinity, femininity, sexual object choice, gender identity, or clothing choice. In Part I of this paper, we propose a theory to organize and to make sensible most of the major facts about these gender transpositions—a periodic table model of the gender transpositions. People have neural substrates that have been subjected to particular combinations of two distinct biobehavi…
A factor analysis of the Klein sexual orientation Grid in two disparate samples
On the Design, Development, and Testing of Sexual Identity Questions: A Discussion and Analysis of Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan's Work for the National Health Interview Survey
A remarkable article by Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan, working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deserves wider attention. They developed two sexual identity-related questions for the (U.S.) National Health Interview Survey: one pertaining to gender identity and one to sexual orientation. They conducted 386 in-depth cognitive interviews and concluded that there are substantial problems with existing sexual identity questions…
The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part II. Limerent and lusty sexual attractions and the nature of bisexuality
I propose a theory that puts the notion of two sexual attractions into a precise, testable form, and then I mesh it with the periodic table model of the gender transpositions described previously (Pillard & Weinrich, 1987). I define a limerent sexual attraction, active in eroticizing the physical and personality characteristics of a particular Limerent Object, and a lusty sexual attraction, active in producing erotic arousal when encountering a n…
Biological Research on Sexual Orientation: A Critique of the Critics
Evolutionary biologists are tired of being accused of being too biologically deterministic, by critics who have little understanding of what biological or evolutionary theories actually imply. Misunderstandings came about because social-science disciplines often do not share evolutionary biology's tendency to build into their models multiple "normal" paths of development. Sociobiologists first explained homosexuality adaptively because they first…
Homogeneous Gynephiles and Heterogeneous Androphiles: A Factor Analysis of Differences and Similarities in Attractions to the Sexes as a Function of Sexual Orientation
What is it about men and women that make them sexually attractive to those people who find them attractive? Which parts of the body? Which sexual acts? We address this question empirically through a factor analysis of people's ratings of the attractiveness of women's and men's body parts, and of particular sex acts with men and women. Participants of a wide variety of sexual orientations (including a rich sample of bisexuals) rated body parts (by…
Nonreproduction, Homosexuality, Transsexualism, and Intelligence: I. A Systematic Literature Search
The relationship between various forms of nonreproduction (especially homosexuality) and intelligence (as measured by IQ and other tests) is investigated by a systematic review of the literature, selecting studies without regard to the direction of their findings. Most studies found the more homosexual subject groups' scores to be higher than those of the more heterosexual controls, and all exceptions to this trend are concentrated in one subgrou…
Cluster Analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples: When Bisexuality Is Not Bisexuality
We used a cluster analysis to empirically address whether sexual orientation is a continuum or can usefully be divided into categories such as heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual using scores on the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) in three samples: groups of men and women recruited through bisexual groups and the Internet (Main Study men; Main Study women), and men recruited for a clinical study of HIV and the nervous system (HIV Study me…
Notes on the Kinsey Scale
Scholars are familiar with the 7 points of the Kinsey Scale (KS)—whole integers, 0 to 6—but are unaware of several facts about the KS. First, most ratings were not self-ratings, but assigned by interviewers after the interview. Second, there was an X category given to individuals who did not respond sexually to either heterosexual or homosexual stimuli. Third, part of the subsample with extensive homosexual experience was asked a specific self-ra…
Is gender dysphoria dysphoric? Elevated depression and anxiety in gender dysphoric and nondysphoric homosexual and bisexual men in an HIV sample
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Ideal
As we turn our attention to the ideal measurement of sexual orientation, what questions should we ask? How do we determine the best items, the best phrasing, the optimal order? How do we address the very different needs of clinicians (more information, please), ivory-tower academics (not too many variables, please), and those who write the questions for large-scale, government-funded surveys (simplicity and clarity, please)? The consensus: Most f…
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Past
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid arose in a particular place and time during which scholars were noting the multidimensional nature of many concepts pertaining to sex and gender. The Grid embodies the notion that sexual orientation is more multifaceted than any single number can reflect, as well as the observation that each facet can change over time. At roughly the same time, scholars were also noting that phenomena that had been thought to be …
Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men
Transsexuals, homosexuals, and sissy boys: On the mathematics of follow‐up studies
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Present
To understand the current state of research on sexual orientation, we need to address some important questions. Is the distribution of sexual orientation discrete or continuous? Is it best measured with one dimension or two—or more? Just what is sexual orientation, anyway? When studying sexual orientation, should we focus on the beloved, not the lover (i.e., interpret attraction as a function of the attractive person, rather than the person who i…
Data Analysis Terminable and Interminable: My Collaboration with Fritz Klein
The author began using Fritz Klein's Sexual Orientation Grid in research studies soon after he moved to San Diego, where Fritz lived for many years. The author and Dr. Fritz began a study that was partially published in an early issue of the Journal of Bisexuality and whose data analyses are ongoing. This article summarizes and reflects on that research
The language of gay men's sexual behavior: An addendum
Nonreproduction, Homosexuality, Transsexualism, and Intelligence: I. A Systematic Literature Search
The relationship between various forms of nonreproduction (especially homosexuality) and intelligence (as measured by IQ and other tests) is investigated by a systematic review of the literature, selecting studies without regard to the direction of their findings. Most studies found the more homosexual subject groups' scores to be higher than those of the more heterosexual controls, and all exceptions to this trend are concentrated in one subgrou…
Toward a Sociobiological Theory of the Emotions
Transsexuals, homosexuals, and sissy boys: On the mathematics of follow‐up studies
The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part I. A theory based on masculinization and defeminization of the brain
Students of human sexuality have long tried to make sense of atypical masculinity, femininity, sexual object choice, gender identity, or clothing choice. In Part I of this paper, we propose a theory to organize and to make sensible most of the major facts about these gender transpositions—a periodic table model of the gender transpositions. People have neural substrates that have been subjected to particular combinations of two distinct biobehavi…
The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part II. Limerent and lusty sexual attractions and the nature of bisexuality
I propose a theory that puts the notion of two sexual attractions into a precise, testable form, and then I mesh it with the periodic table model of the gender transpositions described previously (Pillard & Weinrich, 1987). I define a limerent sexual attraction, active in eroticizing the physical and personality characteristics of a particular Limerent Object, and a lusty sexual attraction, active in producing erotic arousal when encountering a n…
Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy
The Definition and Scope of Sexual Orientation
Effects of recalled childhood gender nonconformity on adult genitoerotic role and Aids exposure
Psychopathology and social functioning in men prenatally exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES)
Previous research has suggested increased psychopathology in prenatally diethylstilbestrol (DES)-exposed persons. The current study compares the psychiatric histories and social functioning of 27 men with a history of high-dose prenatal DES exposure and their unexposed brothers. We expected DES subjects to show greater lifetime psychopathology and poorer social functioning than controls. Both groups showed high rates of lifetime depression, lifet…
The language of gay men's sexual behavior: An addendum
A factor analysis of the Klein sexual orientation Grid in two disparate samples
Personality and lipid level differences associated with homosexual and bisexual identity in men
Validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale for Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
To evaluate the validity of the Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB) for studies of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease, 514 men were studied who were divided among four categories: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Group A (N = 272), CDC-B (N = 81), CDC-C (N = 47), and uninfected male controls (N = 114). The QWB and a variety of medical, neuropsychological, and biochemical measures were administered to all partic…
Is gender dysphoria dysphoric? Elevated depression and anxiety in gender dysphoric and nondysphoric homosexual and bisexual men in an HIV sample
Biological Research on Sexual Orientation: A Critique of the Critics
Evolutionary biologists are tired of being accused of being too biologically deterministic, by critics who have little understanding of what biological or evolutionary theories actually imply. Misunderstandings came about because social-science disciplines often do not share evolutionary biology's tendency to build into their models multiple "normal" paths of development. Sociobiologists first explained homosexuality adaptively because they first…
Bi-Gay, Bi-Straight, and Bi-Bi: Three Bisexual Subgroups Identified Using Cluster Analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
Are heterosexuals, bisexuals, and homosexuals arbitrary divisions on a continuum of sexual orientation, or is it useful to divide people into discrete categories? Our cluster analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) addresses this important question. In two Internet-recruited samples (women, n = 786; men, n = 1,017) we chose a five-cluster classification (Heterosexual, Bi-Heterosexual, Bi-Bisexual, Bi-Homosexual/Lesbian, and Homosexua…
Data Analysis Terminable and Interminable: My Collaboration with Fritz Klein
The author began using Fritz Klein's Sexual Orientation Grid in research studies soon after he moved to San Diego, where Fritz lived for many years. The author and Dr. Fritz began a study that was partially published in an early issue of the Journal of Bisexuality and whose data analyses are ongoing. This article summarizes and reflects on that research
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Past
The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid arose in a particular place and time during which scholars were noting the multidimensional nature of many concepts pertaining to sex and gender. The Grid embodies the notion that sexual orientation is more multifaceted than any single number can reflect, as well as the observation that each facet can change over time. At roughly the same time, scholars were also noting that phenomena that had been thought to be …
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Ideal
As we turn our attention to the ideal measurement of sexual orientation, what questions should we ask? How do we determine the best items, the best phrasing, the optimal order? How do we address the very different needs of clinicians (more information, please), ivory-tower academics (not too many variables, please), and those who write the questions for large-scale, government-funded surveys (simplicity and clarity, please)? The consensus: Most f…
On the Design, Development, and Testing of Sexual Identity Questions: A Discussion and Analysis of Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan's Work for the National Health Interview Survey
A remarkable article by Kristen Miller and J. Michael Ryan, working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deserves wider attention. They developed two sexual identity-related questions for the (U.S.) National Health Interview Survey: one pertaining to gender identity and one to sexual orientation. They conducted 386 in-depth cognitive interviews and concluded that there are substantial problems with existing sexual identity questions…
Multidimensional Measurement of Sexual Orientation: Present
To understand the current state of research on sexual orientation, we need to address some important questions. Is the distribution of sexual orientation discrete or continuous? Is it best measured with one dimension or two—or more? Just what is sexual orientation, anyway? When studying sexual orientation, should we focus on the beloved, not the lover (i.e., interpret attraction as a function of the attractive person, rather than the person who i…
Cluster Analysis of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples: When Bisexuality Is Not Bisexuality
We used a cluster analysis to empirically address whether sexual orientation is a continuum or can usefully be divided into categories such as heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual using scores on the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid (KSOG) in three samples: groups of men and women recruited through bisexual groups and the Internet (Main Study men; Main Study women), and men recruited for a clinical study of HIV and the nervous system (HIV Study me…
Homogeneous Gynephiles and Heterogeneous Androphiles: A Factor Analysis of Differences and Similarities in Attractions to the Sexes as a Function of Sexual Orientation
What is it about men and women that make them sexually attractive to those people who find them attractive? Which parts of the body? Which sexual acts? We address this question empirically through a factor analysis of people's ratings of the attractiveness of women's and men's body parts, and of particular sex acts with men and women. Participants of a wide variety of sexual orientations (including a rich sample of bisexuals) rated body parts (by…
Notes on the Kinsey Scale
Scholars are familiar with the 7 points of the Kinsey Scale (KS)—whole integers, 0 to 6—but are unaware of several facts about the KS. First, most ratings were not self-ratings, but assigned by interviewers after the interview. Second, there was an X category given to individuals who did not respond sexually to either heterosexual or homosexual stimuli. Third, part of the subsample with extensive homosexual experience was asked a specific self-ra…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (14 works) · Sexual orientation (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (8 works) · Homosexuality (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works)