Anonymous
04/04/2023 (Tue) 23:51
No.20818
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>>20817http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21516365>Psychologists at the University of Warwick had men and women judge how each of 50 objects fit into a certain category—whether it belonged, did not belong, or only partially (somewhat) belonged. For example, is a cucumber a fruit? Is a horse a vehicle? After making each judgment, people reported how confident they were about their decision.>Men were more likely to see an object as fully belonging or not belonging to a strict category, while women more often judged that objects only partially belonged. The more intriguing finding, though, was that men and women were equally confident about their decisions. This means the gender difference was not due to men simply being more certain or women more uncertain about their judgments. One possibility is that societal gender roles promote more absolute, black-and-white views in men and more detailed, complex views in women.https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA322563482&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=15277143&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E3ed22e88>We examined gender differences in healthy adults on the revised version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (henceforth the Eyes Test), developed by Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, Hill, Raste, and Plumb (2001). In this task, participants examine photographs of pairs of eyes and choose among four descriptors (e.g., playful, comforting, irritating, bored). Healthy adults and samples from ten countries (Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Argentina, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Chile, and Hungary) were included in the analysis. Consistent with previous evidence of a small female advantage in decoding nonverbal behavior, we found a small statistically significant effect for female superiority over males on the Eyes Test (g = .177, k = 42). Together, the test for heterogeneity and [I.sup.2] indicate that the female advantage on the Eyes Test is homogenous across studies. >The small effect in favor of females suggests that women tend to be better than men at judging emotions or mental states represented by eye stimuli.