Science Good News: Study Shows That Most Men Are Not Toxic - HORRIBLE NEWS: KIKE SCROTES DISSEMINATING NEW PROPAGANDA SAYING ONLY 10% OF MOIDS ARE TOXIC FROTHING ANIMALS WITH NO REDEEMING QUALITIES.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...-news-study-shows-that-most-men-are-not-toxic
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By Sebastian Ocklenburg, Ph.D

A new study investigated how common toxic masculinity is. Here's what it found.​

Posted January 11, 2026 | Reviewed by Tyler Woods

KEY POINTS​

• "Toxic masculinity" is often mentioned online but there is not much psychological research on it.
• A new study in more than 15,000 mean investigated eight markers of toxic masculinity.
• Only 10.8 percent of men included in the study showed clear signs of toxic masculinity.
• Hostile and benevolent toxic masculinity need to be differentiated.

“Toxic Masculinity” is a buzzword widely used online that broadly captures troubling attitudes about masculinity that may be harmful to others. However, little actual psychological research has been conducted on it. This is a problem, since it leaves unclear what defines toxic masculinity and how common it is.

A new psychological study on toxic masculinity​

A new study entitled “Are Men Toxic? A Person-Centered Investigation Into the Prevalence of Different Types of Masculinity in a Large Sample of New Zealand Men,” published in “Psychology of Men & Masculinities,” a scientific journal by the American Psychological Association APA, focused on toxic masculinity (Hill Cone and co-workers, 2026). In the study, the research team, led by scientist Deborah Hill Cone from the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, analyzed data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. Overall, data from more than 15,000 male heterosexual volunteers aged between 18 and 99 years were included in the study. The volunteers included in the study had filled out various questionnaires, and the scientists concentrated on analyzing eight factors that could indicate problematic or toxic masculinity:

1. Gender identity centrality: This psychological construct measures how important it is for someone’s sense of self to be a man.
2. Sexual prejudice: This psychological construct measures negative thoughts about other people based on their sexual orientation.
3. Disagreeableness: A personality trait that includes being unpleasant and offensive to other people.
4. Narcissism: A personality trait that includes an increased sense of self-worth, often at the cost of other people.
5. Hostile sexism: Overtly negative attitudes towards women.
6. Benevolent sexism: Attitudes towards women that are not overtly hostile but still view them in a stereotypical way.
7. Opposition to domestic violence prevention initiatives: Being opposed to initiatives helping prevent violence towards women in relationships
8. Social dominance orientation: A preference against equality in social groups and for having a dominance hierarchy within groups.

Results of the study: Only about 11 percent of men show toxic masculinity​

The scientists used advanced statistical modelling to identify subgroups of men characterized by distinct profiles across the eight toxic masculinity markers included in the study. These "latent profile analyses" revealed five distinct groups of men regarding toxic masculinity. The good news is that most men did not show toxic masculinity.

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The largest group was called “Atoxics” (35.4 percent). These men showed low values across all eight indicators of toxic masculinity.

The second and third largest groups (27.2 percent and 26.6 percent of volunteers) both showed low to moderate values across the eight indicators of toxic masculinity.

Only the two smallest groups showed high levels of toxic masculinity. These included the “Benevolent Toxic” group (7.6 percent) that showed high values on benevolent sexism and sexual prejudice and moderate-to-high values on the other markers of toxic masculinity. The smallest group was the “Hostile Toxic” group (3.2 percent) that showed the highest values on hostile sexism, opposition to domestic violence prevention, disagreeableness, narcissism, and social dominance orientation.

Takeaway​

Taken together, only 10.8 percent of the volunteers in this large study showed clear signs of toxic masculinity, while 89.2 percent did not. This finding indicates that the vast majority of men are not “toxic” and do not believe in destructive male attitudes. The study also showed that there seem to be two forms of toxic masculinity: the hostile and the benevolent. The scientists suggested that this finding should be kept in mind when developing measures to protect against toxic masculinity.

References

Hill Cone, D., Lilly, K. J., Sibley, C. G., & Osborne, D. (2026). Are men toxic? A person-centered investigation into the prevalence of different types of masculinity in a large sample of New Zealand men. Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 27(1), 106–123. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000547

Sebastian Ocklenburg, Ph.D., is a professor for research methods in psychology at the Department of Psychology at MSH Medical School in Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on left-handedness and brain asymmetries.

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[Bogliacci]

These people are insane

 

[WeWuzFinns]

90% of men are beta cucks

 

[Robbyretard]

What only eight markers of toxic masculinity, But I was told I had 69 markers of toxic masculinity, what gives?

 

[Corette]

This study is not canon.

 

[Dagoth AMOGUS]

And the race of those men is……!

 

[Stabby_Pencil]

At this point we need science for the 'WE LOVE SCIENCE!' crowd to disprove half of the shit they say to de-fang their crazy ideology about men.

 

[Otterly]

Gender identity centrality: This psychological construct measures how important it is for someone’s sense of self to be a man.

This is an insane statement. Think please about this criterion. They’re saying you mus be unhappy with an inbuilt, in changeable and natural part of you.
If you, as a man, find being a man important to your identity, you’re bad. This can be interpreted as loosely as they like : you’re a doting father? Toxic! You’re a firefighter using male strength to pull people out of burning buildings? Toxic! You’re a male mentor for troubled youth? Toxic! You’re just a bloke and you don’t think about it like that much but you’re perfectly happy to be a bloke? TOXIC.
This is not in any way valid science, it’s castrating ideology and the soy gremlin who did it should be put in a locker and beaten. By the lab girls hockey team.

 

[Rapesputin]

Gender identity centrality: This psychological construct measures how important it is for someone’s sense of self to be a man.

This only applies to fags and pooners althoughbeit

 

[Gandhi's Left Hook]

Social dominance orientation: A preference against equality in social groups and for having a dominance hierarchy within groups.

I'm 100% against this because it's simply not true. Their is ALWAYS a hierarchy in groups due to ability and personality traits. Denying this fact is retarded as fuck.

Yes often heirarchy can be toxic, but that usually is because of nepotism where people are promoted in the group beyond their ability to lead. These people crush the upward moviment of others because inherently they know they are inadaquet for the job, whatever that may be.

These midwits need to stop analyzing everything in a bubble.

 

[Apustajan apustaja]

I'm 100% against this because it's simply not true. Their is ALWAYS a hierarchy in groups due to ability and personality traits. Denying this fact is retarded as fuck.

Yes often heirarchy can be toxic, but that usually is because of nepotism where people are promoted in the group beyond their ability to lead. These people crush the upward moviment of others because inherently they know they are inadaquet for the job, whatever that may be.

These midwits need to stop analyzing everything in a bubble.

There are also several hieararchies at play at once, ask a group of little boys who can run the fastest, they know. But someone is also the smartest, the strongest, most handsome, makes the best paper airplanes or is the nicest and they usually make sure everyone is the best at something. That is how you earn your place in a group, being the most useful for something. The idea that everyone must be equal at everything or someone gets sad is female thinking.

 

[Hitman One]

femoidbros........ our response?

 

[Super-Chevy454]

And the race of those men is……!

Good question, I wondered the same thing.

 

[Nero Fiddled]

So the obvious conclusion to this is that when it comes to "toxic masculinity", we should all ignore these retards and carry on with our lives as we always have as it's obvious they are just making this shit up as they go.

 

[Pluciferous]

So the obvious conclusion to this is that when it comes to "toxic masculinity", we should all ignore these retards and carry on with our lives as we always have as it's obvious they are just making this shit up as they go.

No, the correct response is to invariably respond to any remotely Karen-ish behavior with “ma’am, I need you to check your toxic femininity”. Say it to so many women so many times a week that it starts to register in their consciousness.

NOTE: Take care not to do this to any TiMs, you’ll just give them a euphoria boner.

 

[Brubby Two]

I am so proud to be in the 90th percentile. My mother always told me I was exceptional.

 

[JimmyJones]

Something's a bit off. Every fucking day there's more and more articles by Jews about how moids are all toxic and should die and we need a reset on masculinity. Of course, it's always some fat dangerhair or scrawny faggot writing the article. Why such an uptick in these articles? Is it because we aren't all willing to die in foreign wars now and no self respecting man would care about being called out as racist or transphobic like some were tricked to back in 2016? Also I get this article isn't exactly the same thing (I actually read it lol) but it has the same heart as the other shit being written currently. They all come from the same place.

Seriously, I haven't seen such a consistency in articles like this since radical feminism picked up back in 2015. And I can't wait for some fat beauty parlor bitch to come here and begin picking fights with everyone, as always happens in these threads.

 

[Megaton Punch]

Something's a bit off. Every fucking day there's more and more articles by Jews about how moids are all toxic and should die and we need a reset on masculinity. Of course, it's always some fat dangerhair or scrawny faggot writing the article. Why such an uptick in these articles? Is it because we aren't all willing to die in foreign wars now and no self respecting man would care about being called out as racist or transphobic like some were tricked to back in 2016? Also I get this article isn't exactly the same thing (I actually read it lol) but it has the same heart as the other shit being written currently. They all come from the same place.

Seriously, I haven't seen such a consistency in articles like this since radical feminism picked up back in 2015. And I can't wait for some fat beauty parlor bitch to come here and begin picking fights with everyone, as always happens in these threads.

Not to mention these criteria are so broad that it's hard to believe any men on earth don't "fail" at least one of them. It basically says that you have to be a mindless Stepford Husband who thinks biology isn't real and giving special privileges to women is good no matter what or else you're a Toxic Male. I understand pathetic male feminist losers exist, but I am positive that 90% of men aren't that.

 

[Ignatius von Cistern]

It was a mistake to give girls clipboards. Or research funding.

Seriously, think about it. Someone had to write up a grant proposal for this study. Someone had to read and approve it.

This muney would be better imbezzled for hookers and blow.

 

[deleuzeon]

This is a good time to remind people that psychology is a pseudoscientific field where nothing replicates or is factual at all.

The correct use of psychology is the way Nietzsche used it: explaining that all your enemies are retards because they resent you, and they eat like shit and don't get fresh air.