Questions tagged [gender]
For questions relating to biological and social characterizations of gender and attributable differences in behavior and psychological processes based on these constructs.
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Conscious basis for gender identification
What conscious experiences lead a transgender person to identify with the opposite sex?
Physiology is clearly not determining.
Sexual orientation is not determining (homosexuality).
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Is gender biologically or socially determined?
I guess the word "gender" needs to be defined, but that is part of the problem I suppose, since it can mean many different things to many different people. By gender, I do not mean anatomical physical ...
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Are woman more Judging than men in the MBTI?
Since I lack of academic formation please be tolerant if I write something not correct.
As you know the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test is based on 4 personality dimensions (E/I, S/N, T/F, J/...
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What are the meanings of the word 'gender'?
Gender is often loosely described as the psychological parallel of sex. But this is more like a simile than a description. It is also often noted as being in the mind e.g. the genderbread man.
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On what basis do professionals who recognize gender dysphoria support risky and permanent medical intervention for those seeking gender re-assignment?
Before I pose my question, here are some statements from a slideshow on "Understanding Gender Nonconformity in Childhood and Adolescence" by Robert Garofalo, attributed to the Children's ...
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Is Jordan Peterson correct when he states that "as societies become more egalitarian, personality differences across genders maximize"?
There are many videos (for example, here, here, and here) where Jordan Peterson claims that as societies become more egalitarian, personality differences across genders increase. He is often stating ...
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Evidence for gender-based math ability differences?
What evidence and counter-evidence is there for mathematical ability for being correlated with gender? If there is a difference, how significant is it (mean vs. variance) and when does it start to ...
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Are women better at multitasking?
I've observed multiple occasions where females are better at multitasking than males. It's not rare to see a lady driving a car, doing her make up and talking on the phone at the same time. Once I ...
