sex differences in close friendships
Like men’s reproductive potential, men’s close friendships vary less sharply across adulthood than do women’s close friendships.
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ancient erotic services market
Spells for male users vastly predominated among love spells directly seeking sex. Love spells for female users typically sought attention and affiliation.
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sex differences in expected lifespan
A trend toward increasing female lifespan advantage ended about 1975 when women’s participation in the workforce began to increase relatively sharply.
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women and men communicate differently
Automated text categorization techniques applied to writing style can identify an author’s sex with 80% accuracy.
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men not from Mars, women not from Venus
If someone claims that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, laugh and say, of course they are.
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sex differences in newspaper reviews and citations of Brizendine’s The Male Brain
Reviews of Louann Brizendine books, The Male Brain and The Female Brain, illustrate sex differences in communication.
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online social communication much more important than online video
According to a representative survey of U.S. adult internet users in mid-autumn 2009, social communication is a much more important online activity than is watching video content. Asked to rate independently the importance of various online (Internet) activities, 63% of adult Internet users described “communicating online with friends and family, even if they are far [...]
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male sexual self-wounding
In a preclassical Mayan creation mural from San Bartolo and dated to roughly 100 BGC, male gods draw blood from their penises as part of acts to establish the cosmos. Wounding one’s own reproductive organ is odd behavior from an evolutionary perspective. The wounding effect is naturally related to the female reproductive cycle. Perhaps male [...]
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women recognize emotions more quickly than men do
A recent controlled study found that women discriminate perceived expressions of fear and disgust about 100 milliseconds faster than men do. For comparison, in designing its search service, Google is concerned to save users 30 to 40 milliseconds of response time. The study also found the women and men discriminate fear and disgust expressed by [...]
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gender differences in communication
Sex is not socially constructed through human discourse. Almost all the plant and animals that you see reproduce sexually. Humans have reproduced sexually from the time of the very first humans. Fossils indicate that life forms have reproduced sexually for at least 1.2 billion years.[*] Sex is a key variable in Darwinian evolution. Biological and [...]
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