Study: Female Brain Wired for Emotion
By PAUL RECER
"WASHINGTON (AP) – Matrimonial lore says husbands never remember marital spats and wives never forget. A new study suggests a reason: Women's brains are wired both to feel and to recall emotions more keenly than the brains of men. "
I really hope this didn't come as a shock to anyone.
Idealized Women in TV Ads Make Girls Feel Bad
By Alan Mozes
"TV commercials that depict idealized images of rail-thin feminine beauty can send young female viewers–particularly those who place great importance on their appearance–into an immediate tailspin of increased anger and body dissatisfaction, Australian researchers say."
"'Viewing television commercials containing images of the unrealistic thin-ideal for women caused adolescent girls to feel less confident, more angry and more dissatisfied with their weight and appearance,' said study lead author Duane Hargreaves of Flinders University in South Australia."
Divorce No Ticket to Happiness, Study Says
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Unhappily married couples often get lots of advice and a report released on Thursday offered some more: don’t divorce, stick it out.
Researchers from the University of Chicago and other schools concluded that about the same proportion of couples who avoided divorcing despite an unhappy marriage ended up happy five years later as those who had split up.
…I just disapprove of the lifestyle.
Study: Homophobia is not a phobia
"SUMMARY: Homophobia is a misnomer, according to a group of U.S. psychologists. The psychologists from the University of Arkansas claim that homophobia is not an actual phobia because it’s caused by disgust, not fear or anxiety."
Sex Differences in the Brain
Men and women display patterns of behavioral and cognitive differences that reflect varying hormonal influences on brain development
By Doreen Kimura
Men and women differ not only in their physical attributes and reproductive function but also in many other characteristics, including the way they solve intellectual problems. For the past few decades, it has been ideologically fashionable to insist that these behavioral differences are minimal and are the consequence of variations in experience during development before and after adolescence. Evidence accumulated more recently, however, suggests that the effects of sex hormones on brain organization occur so early in life that from the start the environment is acting on differently wired brains in boys and girls. Such effects make evaluating the role of experience, independent of physiological predisposition, a difficult if not dubious task. The biological bases of sex differences in brain and behavior have become much better known through increasing numbers of behavioral, neurological and endocrinological studies.