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What are the differences between the way the brains of men and women work? And why? Do men use only their right brain?
Last night, I watched an episode of the BBC’s documentary, Secrets of the Sexes. There were many things in the show that I thought were interesting ideas and they presented several intriguing studies based on a variety of psychological tests...
One experiment on the show that I found funny was when they showed a group of men two different news broadcasts (same news set and both programs were about current events.) One anchor was an attractive man in a suit. The second anchor was an attractive woman in a semi-low cut blouse.
After the two shows they asked the men to repeat what each news anchor talked about. They could repeat what the man said. They didn’t remember what the woman anchor actually said, but many of them recalled that she was attractive.
In another experiment looking at empathy, they placed an 8-yr-old girl on a street corner in England—sitting alone, against a brick wall. They were seeing who would notice her and stop to see why she was there, alone. In that, 22% of women stopped and only 1% of men did (and some of those men who stopped were with women who asked the girl if she was ok.)
Why?
“Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men. Find out more about 'brain sex' differences by taking the Sex ID test, a series of visual challenges and questions used by psychologists in the BBC One television series Secrets of the Sexes”
Take the shortened version of the test “Sex ID: Find out how your mind works” at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...add_user.shtml
“The BBC collaborated with a team of psychologists to create Sex ID, which brings together a series of separate psychological tests related to brain sex differences for the first time.
Most scientists agree that men and women are of equal intelligence, but some believe that they may have differing mental strengths and weaknesses, on average. The reasons for these brain sex differences, if they exist, are not known, though there are a number of theories that offer possible explanations.
Originally the Sex ID website was an online experiment, linked to a database that recorded test takers' answers. The main aims of the experiment were to further investigate theories about brain sex differences and to make new discoveries.”
Last night, I watched an episode of the BBC’s documentary, Secrets of the Sexes. There were many things in the show that I thought were interesting ideas and they presented several intriguing studies based on a variety of psychological tests...
One experiment on the show that I found funny was when they showed a group of men two different news broadcasts (same news set and both programs were about current events.) One anchor was an attractive man in a suit. The second anchor was an attractive woman in a semi-low cut blouse.
After the two shows they asked the men to repeat what each news anchor talked about. They could repeat what the man said. They didn’t remember what the woman anchor actually said, but many of them recalled that she was attractive.
In another experiment looking at empathy, they placed an 8-yr-old girl on a street corner in England—sitting alone, against a brick wall. They were seeing who would notice her and stop to see why she was there, alone. In that, 22% of women stopped and only 1% of men did (and some of those men who stopped were with women who asked the girl if she was ok.)
Why?
“Some researchers say that men can have 'women's brains' and that women can think more like men. Find out more about 'brain sex' differences by taking the Sex ID test, a series of visual challenges and questions used by psychologists in the BBC One television series Secrets of the Sexes”
Take the shortened version of the test “Sex ID: Find out how your mind works” at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbo...add_user.shtml
“The BBC collaborated with a team of psychologists to create Sex ID, which brings together a series of separate psychological tests related to brain sex differences for the first time.
Most scientists agree that men and women are of equal intelligence, but some believe that they may have differing mental strengths and weaknesses, on average. The reasons for these brain sex differences, if they exist, are not known, though there are a number of theories that offer possible explanations.
Originally the Sex ID website was an online experiment, linked to a database that recorded test takers' answers. The main aims of the experiment were to further investigate theories about brain sex differences and to make new discoveries.”
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