Dr V J Grant

Valerie Grant is a trained psychologist with a PhD in psychology from the University of Auckland.

She has taught at the Auckland School of Medicine for 25 years.

She started her work on the sex ratio in 1966 when she first noticed a difference between mothers of baby boys and mothers of baby girls. She has written scientific papers on her theory and has had them published in peer-reviewed, internationally respected scientific journals (see below).

She is married with 3 children and 4 grandchildren.

vjgrant@sexratio.com

Papers

Grant, V. J. Entrenched misinformation about X and Y sperm. British Medical Journal 332, 916, 2006.

Grant, V. J. Sex predetermination and the ethics of sex selection. Human Reproduction, web access, January, 2006.

Grant, V. J. and Irwin R. J. Follicular fluid steroid levels and subsequent sex of bovine embryos. Journal of Experimental Zoology 303A, 1120-1125, 2005.

Grant, V. J. Dominance, testosterone and psychological sex differences. Nova Science Publications: New York. pp. 1-28. 2005.

Grant, V. J., Robinson, E and Muir P. Sex ratios in healthcare occupations: population based study. British Medical Journal, 328, 13-14, 2004.

Grant, V. J. and Metcalf, L. E. Paternal occupation and offspring sex ratio. Sexualities, Evolution and Gender, 5, 191-209, 2003.

Grant, V. J. and Yang, S. Achieving women and declining sex ratios. Human Biology, 75 (6), 917-927, 2003.

Grant, V. J. The maternal dominance hypothesis: questioning Trivers and Willard. Evolutionary Psychology 1, 96-107, 2003.

Grant, V. J. and France J. T., Dominance and testosterone in women. Biological Psychology, 58: 41-4, 2001.

Grant, V. J. Dominance runs deep; Commentary on Mazur and Booth's "Dominance and testosterone in men". Behavioural and Brain Sciences, 21, 376-7, 1998.

Grant, V. J. Maternal Personality, Evolution and the Sex Ratio: Do Mothers Control the Sex of the Infant?, Routledge, London, 1998.

Grant, V. J. Sex determination and the maternal dominance hypothesis. Human Reproduction, 11, 2371-2376, 1996.

Grant, V. J. Sex ratio and coital rate: An hypothesis without foundation. Current Anthropology, 36, 295-296, 1995.

Grant, V. J. Maternal dominance and the conception of sons. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 67, 343-351, 1994.

Grant, V. J. Sex-of-infant differences in mother-infant interaction: A reinterpretation of past findings. Developmental Review, 14, 1-26, 1994.

Grant, V. J. Maternal personality and sex of infant: A response to James. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 65, 77-80, 1992.

Grant, V. J. The measurement of dominance in pregnant women by use of the Simple Adjective Test. Personality and Individual Differences, 13, 99-102, 1992.

Grant, V. J. Maternal personality and sex of infant. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 63, 261-266, 1990.

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