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  2. Mental disorders and gender - Wikipedia

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    Women are around 15% more likely to experience comorbidities with GAD than men. [9] Anxiety disorders in women are more likely to be comorbid with other anxiety disorders, bulimia, or depression. [10] Women are two and a half times more likely to experience Panic Disorder (PD) than men, [11] and are also twice as likely to develop specific ...

  3. Sex differences in cognition - Wikipedia

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    Current literature suggests women have higher level of social cognition. A 2012 review published in the journal Neuropsychologia found that women are better at recognizing facial effects, expression processing and emotions in general. [68] Men were only better at recognizing specific behaviour which includes anger, aggression and threatening ...

  4. Neuroscience of sex differences - Wikipedia

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    It was found that the group of men slightly outperformed the women in both the verbal-numerical reasoning and reaction time tests. Subsequently, the researchers tested to what extent the differences in performance was mediated by the varying attributes of the male and female brain (e.g. surface area) using two mixed sample groups.

  5. Maturity (psychological) - Wikipedia

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    However, the relationship between psychological maturity and age is a difficult one, and there has been much debate over methods of determining maturity, [40] considering its subjective nature, relativity to the current environment and/or other factors, and especially regarding social issues such as religion, politics, culture, laws, etc. [41]

  6. Adult development - Wikipedia

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    Adult development encompasses the changes that occur in biological and psychological domains of human life from the end of adolescence until the end of one's life. Changes occur at the cellular level and are partially explained by biological theories of adult development and aging. [1]

  7. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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    The pelvis is, in general, different between the human female and male skeleton. [12] [13] Although variations exist and there may be a degree of overlap between typically male or female traits, [12] [13] the pelvis is the most dimorphic bone of the human skeleton and is therefore likely to be accurate when using it to ascertain a person's sex ...

  8. Texas state supported living centers - Wikipedia

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    The initial census was 65 residents, mostly female. At its peak Austin State School had a census of 2,000 and included a working dairy farm. In 1965, the Texas Mental Health and Mentally Challenged Act authorized county mentally challenged centers, with the aim of helping people with mild mental disabilities to live with their families.

  9. Sex differences in humans - Wikipedia

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    When questioned about preferences of a female boss or a male boss, women chose a preference for a male boss 39% of the time, compared to 26% of men displaying preference for a male boss. Only 27% of women would prefer a boss of the same gender. [49] This preference, among both sexes, for male leadership in the workplace has continued unabated ...