My husband will occasionally tell me a story — about apologizing to someone who was in the wrong or a tense email exchange that he ended with a smiley face — and wryly conclude, “That’s how beta I am.

In the animal kingdom, a beta male refers to an animal that is subordinate to the dominant alpha male. In human relationships, a beta male refers to a man tends to be traditionally subservient, weak, ...

Picture of black couple looking away from each other and towards the camera with a concerned look on faces. If you are concerned that you are dealing with a beta male in your life, take a look at ...

The term "Beta male" has gained popularity in cultural and social circles to describe certain personality traits and male behaviors. While it's not a concept formally recognized in scientific ...

Sunaina Mullick writes about relationships, offering advice and insights on building and maintaining healthy personal connections. The new category of men, who have taken over societal norms and its ...

At last, good news for the beta male. From the wild to Wall Street, as everyone knows, the alpha male runs the show, enjoying power over other males and, as a field biologist might put it, the best ...

Welcome to Beta Male, a new site from New York Media that for the next four weeks will talk about manly kinds of things, only maybe not in the usual manly way. And welcome to Mansplaining, a weeklong ...

As a comic psychopathology of middle-class men in their early thirties, Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong’s soon-to-return Peep Show has many strengths. It captures the emotional scurvy born of a diet of ...