Study Shocker! Men and Women Not So Different After All
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iStock/Thinkstock(CHAPEL HILL, N.C.) — Men may never understand women and vice versa but researchers from three colleges have apparently figured out that the sexes aren’t all that different when it comes to psychological characteristics.
To make this rather astounding discovery, Zlatan Krizan of Iowa State University, Ethan Zell from the University of North Carolina and Western Carolina University’s Sabrina Teeter poured over 100 meta-analyses of gender differences covering some 12 million people.
Contrary to longstanding gender stereotypes, the trio ascertained that nearly three-quarters of psychological characteristics overlap, meaning men and women have a commonality in such things as risk-taking, stress at work and morality.
Krizan said these men and women are similar in most psychological attributes, regardless of age, intelligence, personality traits and well-being.
However, that’s not to say that the sexes are similar all the way down the line. The researchers contend that there are 10 attributes in which differences are clearly discernible such as men being more aggressive than women and females forming closer attachments to others like them than men.
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