Androcentrism refers to the propensity to center society around men and men’s needs, priorities, and values and to relegate women to the periphery. Androcentrism also positions men as the gender-neutral standard while marking women as gender-specific. Examples of androcentrism include the use of male terms (e.g., he), images, and research participants to represent everyone. Androcentrism has been shown to have serious consequences. For example, women’s health has been adversely affected by over-generalized medical research based solely on male participants. Nonetheless, relatively little is known about androcentrism’s proximate psychological causes. In the present review, we propose a social cognitive perspective arguing that both social power and categorization processes are integral to understanding androcentrism. We present and evaluate three possible pathways to androcentrism deriving from (a) men being more frequently instantiated than women, (b) masculinity being more “ideal” than femininity, and/or (c) masculinity being more common than femininity.

男性中心主义是指倾向于以男人的需求，优先事项和价值观为中心的社会，并使妇女处于边缘地位。男性中心主义也将男性定位为性别中立标准，同时将女性标记为特定性别。大男子主义的例子包括男性使用条款（以下EG，他），图片和研究参与者来代表所有人。男性中心主义已被证明具有严重的后果。例如，仅基于男性参与者的过度概括的医学研究对妇女的健康产生了不利影响。然而，对男性中心主义的直接心理原因知之甚少。在本文中，我们提出了一种社会认知观点，认为社会权力和分类过程对于理解和中心主义都是不可或缺的。我们提出并评估了三种可能的导致雄激素集中的途径，这些途径是：（a）男性比女性更频繁地被实例化；（b）男性气质比女性气质更“理想”；和/或（c）男性气质比女性气质更普遍。