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In 1978 Women and sex roles: A social psychological perspective was published, one of the first textbooks on the psychology behind women and sex roles. [15] Another textbook to be published, Gender and Communication , was the first textbook to discuss the topic of its subject.
Researchers further analyzed the differences in brain volume, surface area and cortical thickness by testing the men and women on verbal-numerical reasoning and reaction time in separate groups. It was found that the group of men slightly outperformed the women in both the verbal-numerical reasoning and reaction time tests.
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 ...
Although men have larger brains, men and women have equal IQs. [19] For men, the gray matter volume in the frontal and parietal lobes correlates with IQ; for women, the gray matter volume in the frontal lobe and Broca's area (which is used in language processing) correlates with IQ. [20]
Women tend to score higher than men on measures of emotional intelligence, but gender stereotypes of men and women can affect how they express emotions. [7] The sex difference is small to moderate, somewhat inconsistent, and is often influenced by the person's motivations or social environment. [ 7 ]
Many women may get "the ick" from men's actions or appearance. Scientists say the phenomenon is related to a primal instinct to protect women's health that naturally occurs in other primate species.
The women-are-wonderful effect is the phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with women when compared to men. This bias reflects an emotional bias toward women as a general case.
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (1992 [1]) is a book written by American author and relationship counselor John Gray.The book states that most common relationship problems between men and women are a result of fundamental psychological differences between the sexes, which the author exemplifies by means of its eponymous metaphor: that men and women are from distinct planets—men from ...