Claudio Bisio
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- Women were better at detecting expressions of disgust. Conventional wisdom and a litany of past research suggest that women have a higher emotional quotient (EQ) than men.
- Men reported more loneliness earlier in life; women reported more of it later in life. Stereotypes of loneliness suggest that it increases with age.
- Men spent more time relaxing than women. Scientists at the University of Barcelona in Spain found that men spent a bigger portion of the day engaging in leisure pursuits than women did.
- Women and men may speak different languages—sort of. A team of psychologists led by Priyanka Joshi of San Francisco State University examined the degree to which men and women relied on "communicative abstraction" to verbally convey their ideas and emotions.
- Men care way too little about what women say. Women care way too much about what men say—except when those men are in positions of actual power, such as are held by politicians or members of the clergy, who are making decisions and choices that will affect the deepest recesses and corners of our most intimate lives without actually, like, consulting us.
- Men care way too much about how women look. Women care as little as they can possibly stand caring about how men look.
- Women will smile even when they are unhappy until a certain point of intimacy occurs (perhaps the procurement of the third drink or, in some more severely regulated communities, the birth of the third child).
- Men laugh when they find something funny. Women laugh when they think it's appropriate. (nb: This, thank Gawd, is beginning to change, but it ain't changing fast enough.)
- Behavior Differences
- How Our Brains Differ
- Why Our Brains Differ
- Zeroing in on Neural Circuits
In 1991, just a few years before Shah launched his sex-differences research, Diane Halpern, PhD, past president of the American Psychological Association, began writing the first edition of her acclaimed academic text, Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities.She found that the animal-research literature had been steadily accreting reports of sex-a...
The neuroscience literature shows that the human brain is a sex-typed organ with distinct anatomical differences in neural structures and accompanying physiological differences in function, says UC-Irvine professor of neurobiology and behavior Larry Cahill, PhD. Cahill edited the 70-article January/February 2017 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience...
But why are men’s and women’s brains different? One big reason is that, for much of their lifetimes, women and men have different fuel additives running through their tanks: the sex-steroid hormones. In female mammals, the primary additives are a few members of the set of molecules called estrogens, along with another molecule called progesterone; ...
Shah’s experiments in animals employ technologies enabling scientists to boost or suppress the activity of individual nerve cells — or even of single genes within those nerve cells — in a conscious, active animal’s brain. These experiments have pinpointed genes whose activity levels differ strongly at specific sites in male versus female mice’s bra...
Countries over 50 percent (shown in orange) have a higher female population, while those below 50 percent (shown in purple) have a higher male population. Most countries have a female share of the population between 49 and 51 percent (within one percentage point of an equal share of men and women).
Sep 22, 2011 · In what's known as sexual dimorphism, men and women have some key physical differences. Life's Little Mysteries explains the point of each of them.
Feb 19, 2024 · Research is cutting through historical discrimination and gender politics to get to the truth about differences between the brains of men and women. FOR most of recorded history, men and...
Jul 30, 2015 · What produces the differences between men and women? Are they trivial or profound? Are they genetic or environmental, or both? And are men really closer genetically to chimpanzees than to...
