Do men and women think differently?!


Question: I have read in my psychology book that men and women really aren't that different in the way that they think. However, I ahve heard alot of people (especially born again Christians) say that men and women are VERY MUCH different in the way that they think and perceive things.

What do you all think?

(And BTW, my mind is made up on this subject, I just want to see what everybody thinks)


Answers: I have read in my psychology book that men and women really aren't that different in the way that they think. However, I ahve heard alot of people (especially born again Christians) say that men and women are VERY MUCH different in the way that they think and perceive things.

What do you all think?

(And BTW, my mind is made up on this subject, I just want to see what everybody thinks)

Men and women do think differently, at least where the anatomy of the brain is concerned, according to a new study.

The brain is made primarily of two different types of tissue, called gray matter and white matter. This new research reveals that men think more with their gray matter, and women think more with white. Researchers stressed that just because the two sexes think differently, this does not affect intellectual performance.

Psychology professor Richard Haier of the University of California, Irvine led the research along with colleagues from the University of New Mexico. Their findings show that in general, men have nearly 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence compared with women, whereas women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence compared to men.

"These findings suggest that human evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior," said Haier, adding that, "by pinpointing these gender-based intelligence areas, the study has the potential to aid research on dementia and other cognitive-impairment diseases in the brain."

The results are detailed in the online version of the journal NeuroImage.

In human brains, gray matter represents information processing centers, whereas white matter works to network these processing centers.

The results from this study may help explain why men and women excel at different types of tasks, said co-author and neuropsychologist Rex Jung of the University of New Mexico. For example, men tend to do better with tasks requiring more localized processing, such as mathematics, Jung said, while women are better at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions of the brain, which aids language skills.

Scientists find it very interesting that while men and women use two very different activity centers and neurological pathways, men and women perform equally well on broad measures of cognitive ability, such as intelligence tests.

This research also gives insight to why different types of head injuries are more disastrous to one sex or the other. For example, in women 84 percent of gray matter regions and 86 percent of white matter regions involved in intellectual performance were located in the frontal lobes, whereas the percentages of these regions in a man’s frontal lobes are 45 percent and zero, respectively. This matches up well with clinical data that shows frontal lobe damage in women to be much more destructive than the same type of damage in men.

Both Haier and Jung hope that this research will someday help doctors diagnose brain disorders in men and women earlier, as well as provide help designing more effective and precise treatments for brain damage.

yes

For sure. Usually.

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Ya i think they do.

Look at this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_com...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_com...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_envy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_sl...

Truly, I think we both revolve around Dick.

Though for sure we think differently. whether complex's is true or not.

duh lololol

in some things yes

try going to a shopping mall and there's your answer.
Hell yes.

they think similar but they still think different most of the time.

now we need a woman to come here and say "no" to prove your point.

I think it depends on the individual's perception of things, but I don't see why there would be such a huge difference. What do you think?

yes, yes they do

I think they do<

we think the same but we see stuff at a different perspectives.

Im sure men dont have to tink about which type of bra to go with today. At least the normals one dont.

yes they do think differntly

well no offence to you as a guy, but in my opinion guys arent that smart and dont think all that much. Girls can think if they want to but most of the time they just dont want to. Guys just mostly are incapable.

they all think about making out

yes they think differently about different things

from my opinion yes of course =)

Women were designed different from men, so of course they think differently. Women tend to use their emotions a lot more than men do, and that factors into the way women think about things. But at the same time there are some men and women that will think the same way, there are women and men that won't think the same way. Really it kind of just depends on person's mind.

Yes

yeah in some ways

well, it's how you think of something, you can be thinking of one thing while your girfriend is thinking the same thing! (that's just an example.)

Yes we all think different things but no matter how different we think we can think similar things just not the same so it would B counted as different!!!:D?

thats weird because from my psychology courses....i tend to think that men and women are different.. and think different...partly due to the way men and women are raised.

The only thing different from men and women are their gender. They also react accordingly to what is expected of their gender. IE MEN: beer, masculinity, tough, fighting IE WOMEN: lose weight, dress prettier, be nice.

I can't explain more thoroughly, but wish to learn a lot about psychology!

Men and women do indeed think differently. Woman have a much bigger corpus collosum, allowing information to be transmitted much faster across the right and left hemispheres-- hence the whole issue of taking more time to make decisions and being able to talk and communicate better (for the majority of people).

Read Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.
Or, get a girlfriend. When she says she has a problem at work, you have two choices: 1. Man choice - try to solve it for her , or, 2. Woman choice - ask her to tell you all about it and how she feels about the problem.

Of course they do , Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus right?

yes



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