Publications

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Keinan-Bar, S., Bar-Anan, Y., & Joel, D. (2026). The relations between gender identity and sexual attraction in straight, gay, and lesbian cisgender individuals. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. Advance online publication.

Keinan-Bar, S., Bar-Anan, Y., & Joel, D. (2026). Gender-specificity in sexual attraction and fantasies: Evidence from self-report and indirect measures. The Journal of Sex Research, 63(3), 443-459.

Keinan-Bar, S., Kostenko, V., & Joel, D. (2026). Gender-Specificity of Sexual Attraction Across Cultures: Individual and Societal Factors. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-15.

Kislev, N., Reifen-Tagar, M., Joel, D., & Saguy, T. (2025). The underpinnings of gendered parenting: The role of social dominance orientation, gender essentialism, and gender ideology. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 28(6), 1168-1192.

Keinan-Bar, S., Joel, D., & Bar-Anan, Y. (2024). A Comparative Investigation of Indirect Measures of Sexual Attraction. Collabra: Psychology, 10(1), 125184.

Joel, D., Smith, C. J., & Veenema, A. H. (2024). Beyond the binary: characterizing the relationships between sex and neuropeptide receptor binding density measures in the rat brain. Hormones and behavior, 159, 105471.

Joel, D. (2023). Sex and the human brain: Moving beyond the binary. In Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine (pp. 385-392). Academic Press.

Joel, D., & Fine, C. (2022). Who Is a Woman: Sex, Gender and Policy Making. Controversial Ideas, 2(2), 6.

Jacobson, R., & Joel, D. (2021). Gender identity and sexuality in an online sample of intersex-identified individuals: a descriptive study. Psychology & Sexuality, 12(3), 248-260.

Rippon, G., Eliot, L., Genon, S., & Joel, D. (2021). How hype and hyperbole distort the neuroscience of sex differences. PLoS biology, 19(5), e3001253.

Saguy, T., Reifen-Tagar, M., & Joel, D. (2021). The gender-binary cycle: The perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1822), 20200141.

Joel, D. (2021). Uncovering and challenging the binary framework. Psychological Inquiry, 32(2), 105-106.

Joel, D. (2021). Beyond the binary: Rethinking sex and the brain. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 122, 165-175.

Joel, D., Garcia-Falgueras, A., & Swaab, D. (2020). The Complex Relationships between Sex and the Brain. The Neuroscientist, 26(2), 156-169.

Berman, Z., Assaf, Y., Tarrasch, R., & Joel, D. (2020). Macro-and microstructural gray matter alterations in sexually assaulted women. Journal of affective disorders, 262, 196-204

Joel, D. (2020). Beyond sex differences and a male–female continuum: Mosaic brains in a multidimensional space. Handbook of clinical neurology, 175, 13-24.

Shalev, G., Admon, R., Berman, Z., & Joel, D. (2020). A mosaic of sex-related structural changes in the human brain following exposure to real-life stress. Brain Structure and Function, 225(1), 461-466.

Jacobson, R., & Joel, D. (2019). Self-Reported Gender Identity and Sexuality in an Online Sample of Cisgender, Transgender, and Gender-Diverse Individuals: An Exploratory Study. The Journal of Sex Research, 56(2), 249-263.

Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R. S., Joel, D., Tate, C. C., & van Anders, S. M. (2019). The Future of Sex and Gender in Psychology: Five Challenges to the Gender Binary. American Psychologist, 74(2), 171.

Jacobson, R., & Joel, D. (2018). An Exploration of the Relations Between Self‑Reported Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in an Online Sample of Cisgender Individuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 47(8), 2407-2426.

Joel, D., Persico, A., Salhov, M., Berman, Z., Oligschläger, S., Meilijson, I., & Averbuch, A. (2018). Analysis of Human Brain Structure Reveals that the Brain “Types” Typical of Males Are Also Typical of Females, and Vice Versa. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 12, 399.

Berman, Z., Assaf, Y., Tarrasch, R., & Joel, D. (2018). Assault-related self-blame and its association with PTSD in sexually assaulted women: an MRI inquiry. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 13(7), 775-784.

Joel, D., & Mccarthy, M. M. (2017). Incorporating Sex As a Biological Variable in Neuropsychiatric Research: Where Are We Now and Where Should We Be?. Neuropsychopharmacology, 42(2), 379-385.

Joel, D. (2016). VIII. Captured in terminology: Sex, sex categories, and sex differences. Feminism & Psychology, 26(3), 335-345.

Joel, D., & Fausto-Sterling, A. (2016). Beyond sex differences: new approaches for thinking about variation in brain structure and function. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1688), 20150451.

Joel, D., Berman, Z., Tavor, I., Wexler, N., Gaber, O., Stein, Y., Shefi, N., Pool, J., Urchs, S., Margulies, D. S., Liem, F., Hänggi, J., Jäncke, L., & Assaf, Y. (2015). Sex beyond the genitalia: The human brain mosaic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(50), 15468-15473.

Joel, D., Tarrasch, R., Berman, Z., Mukamel, M., & Ziv, E. (2014). Queering gender: studying gender identity in ‘normative’individuals. Psychology & Sexuality, 5(4), 291-321.

Joel, D. (2012). Genetic-gonadal-genitals sex (3G-sex) and the misconception of brain and gender, or, why 3G-males and 3G-females have intersex brain and intersex gender. Biology of sex differences, 3(1), 27.

Joel, D. (2011). Male or female? Brains are intersex. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 5, 57.