measuring ophelia

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Personality and Individual Differences (Volume 49, Issue 7, November 2010, Pages 738-742)

Can an ‘Extreme Female Brain’ be characterised in terms of psychosis?

Abstract

The empathising-systemising (E-S) theory proposes that many sex differences can be explained by females typically demonstrating greater empathising abilities (understanding of the

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[jujubeantea]

I just read something like this in the science times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/health/09brain.html

"At least one group of researchers argues that chemical markers help resolve a biological competition between maternal and paternal genes in the developing fetus. In the traditional view of reproduction, genes from the mother and father work together as collaborators, sharing the duties of creating a new life. But a novel theory holds that the genes are in fact in competition, at various points along the newly forming fetus’s genome. If the system goes awry and brain development tilts too strongly toward the father, a result can be autism, these scientists suggest; too heavily toward the mother, and the child may develop mood disorders."

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wait, this is nothing like the one i posted about

[jujubeantea]

they're both associating fathers/males to autistic behavior, and mothers/females to moodiness.

[transparent_85]

yes, but yours isn't retarded. the one you posted proposes a mechanism behind the phenomenon, whereas the one i posted makes no such connections at all, and simply quantifies its own assertion via questionnaires, thus allowing it to claim that it is science while it is, in fact, no better than a vogue "are you pleasing your man" check-off list.