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Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. The male brain Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Louann Brizendine, the founder of the first clinic in the country to study gender differences in brain, behavior, and hormones, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the "male reality" is fundamentally different from the female one "A breakthrough understanding of how men and boys think"--Cover Includes bibliographical references p.
Log in with Facebook Log in with Google. Remember me on this computer. Enter the email address you signed up with and we'll email you a reset link. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Simon Baron-Cohen. A short summary of this paper. Simon Baron-Cohen T he field of gender differences in psychology construct systems. The systemizer intuitively figures is not new, though today it enjoys greater out how things work, or what the underlying rules academic freedom than in past decades.
The are that control a system. Systems can be as varied as s and 70s, while socially liberating, also made an a pond, a vehicle, a computer, a plant, a library cata- open-minded debate about any possible role of biol- logue, a musical instrument, a math equation, or even ogy contributing to psychological gender differences an army unit.
They all operate on inputs and deliver impossible. Those who explored the role of biology outputs, using rules. For some individu- ities between the sexes. It was not a climate in which als, empathizing is stronger than systemizing. This scientists could ask questions about mechanisms in is called a brain of type E, but we can also call it nature.
Today, the pendulum has settled sensibly in the female brain, because more females than males the middle of the nature-nurture debate, and scientists show this profile. For other individuals, systemizing who care deeply about ending inequality and oppres- is stronger than empathizing.
This is called a brain of sion can at the same time also talk freely about bio- type S, but we can also call it the male brain, because logical differences between the male and female brain more males than females show this profile. Yet other and mind. The empathizer intuitively figures out how people are feeling and thus how to treat them with T he evidence for a female advantage in empa- thizing comes from many different areas.
For example, given a free choice of which toys to play care and sensitivity. They ing, hitting, punching. Females tend to show more just shoulder the other boys out of the way. Or if you indirect relational, covert aggression, which includes let children play with those big plastic cars that they gossip, exclusion, and cutting remarks.
They deliberately drive the them physically requires an even lower level of empa- vehicle into another child. The little girls ride around thy than a verbal snipe. This sympathetic vocalizations, These behaviors have tendency echoes what you find in and comforting. This tendency been cleverly investi- adulthood: More women report gated in children by frequently sharing the emotional echoes what you find in introducing a new boy distress of their friends. Women or girl to a group of also show more comforting than adulthood: More women report children already playing men do.
When asked to judge when frequently sharing the emotional together. If the new- someone might have said something comer is female, she is potentially hurtful — a faux pas distress of their friends. Women are also check out what is going better at decoding nonverbal communication, picking on, and then to try to fit in with the ongoing activ- up subtle nuances from tone of voice or facial expres- ity.
And even by the age of six, girls are better accurate layout of the features in the environment at being a host. Boys are more likely to carry on If you ask people to put together a three-dimen- with what they are already doing, perhaps preoccu- sional mechanical apparatus in an assembly task, on pied by their own interests.
Boys are also better at con- How early are such sex differences in empathy structing block buildings from two-dimensional blue- evident? Certainly, by twelve months of age, girls prints. These are constructional systems. The male make more eye contact than boys. But a study from preference for focusing on systems again is evident Cambridge University shows that at birth girls look very early.
The Cambridge study found that one-year- longer at a face, and boys look longer at a suspended old boys show a stronger preference to watch a film mechanical mobile.
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