Psychological characteristics gender exist - and they do have and biological roots.
From: Brain & Mind, January-February 2011
Typically it, typically it! Behind it probably more than just prejudice and the influence of education? According to earlier developmental theories primarily determined the social environment of any preferences: boys imitated more their fathers, the mothers of girls. Education and social norms bear in ensuring that the young slip early in the pre-determined roles for him. But researchers now know how to draw before the social environment, genes and hormones, the mental development of the sexes in different directions - That the science magazine Gehirn & Geist reports in its latest issue (1-2/2011).
solver, men on spatial ability tasks on average better than women, while this in terms of language skills and recognition of emotions had the edge. The male advantages in the "mental rotation" show up early, according to new findings, even in a few months old baby! Presented to young, the mirror image of a familiar, three-dimensional figure, they appear to them as "unknown" to classify - they stare at an appropriate length to it.
girls, however make no distinction between image and mirror image, as David Moore and Scott Johnson of the University of California at Los Angeles reported 2008th
In the area of emotions, there are striking differences: So has the widespread assumption that women are more compassionate and sensitive to emotional stimuli than men, a true core. Perhaps our male ancestors needed a good spatial sense rather because they had lost on their hunting trips otherwise. Other hand, would be much more "feminine intuition" was needed to meet the needs of the offspring and to read as hunger or pain in their faces. Such theories, however, are difficult to verify.
with mental illness, it is also gender differences into account, such as brain states and mind. About four percent of all adults suffer from depression, that they are the most common mental disorders. But a look at the statistics shows that women are more than twice as frequently diagnosed as depressed as men.
One possible reason: While most patients feel depressed and empty, melancholy men are often irritable and aggressive. Consequently misunderstand patients, their families, but also easily go undetected therapists male depression as a general unrest, and the real disruption.
effectiveness evidence for antidepressants to date were based mainly on studies of male subjects, because the hormonal changes in the menstrual cycle can distort the results. A few years ago, the psychiatrist Susan Kornstein of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond with a study showed that men respond less well to SSRIs than women. These popular antidepressants appear under the influence of estrogens to work better.
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