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<b> BIOLOGY TELLS US THAT MEN AND WOMEN REALLY THINK DIFFERENTLY</b>

  
  
  

 

Men may be from Mars and women may be from Venus, and since the American psychotherapist John Gray wrote his famous book, in 1992, on the idea, it has been a commonplace to think of men and women as being from different planets in terms of their emotional responses.

biology men women emotions Scientists have come to accept that a few fundamental differences between men and women are biological. Findings suggest that human evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior. 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.

It turns out that men's and women's brains, for example, are not only different, but the way we use them differs too. Women have larger connections and more frequent interaction between their brain's left and right hemispheres. This accounts for women's ability to have better verbal skills and intuition. Men, on the other hand, have greater brain hemisphere separation, which explains their skills for abstract reasoning and visual-spatial intelligence.

Here 10 big differences:


1. Human relationships. Women tend to communicate more effectively than men, and to utilize non-verbal cues such as tone, emotion, and empathy whereas men tend to be more task-oriented, less talkative, and more isolated. Men have a more difficult time understanding emotions that are not explicitly verbalized.

2. Reaction to stress. Men tend to have a "fight or flight" response to stress situations while women seem to approach these situations with a "tend and befriend" strategy. The reason for these different reactions to stress is rooted in hormones. Resulting in calming and nurturing feelings, the hormone oxytocin is released during stress in everyone. However, men produce high levels of estrogen which tends to reduce the effects of oxytocin.

3. Language. Two sections of the brain responsible for language were found to be larger in women than in men, indicating one reason that women typically excel in language-based subjects and in language-associated thinking.

4. Emotions. Women typically have a larger deep limbic system than men, which allows them to be more in touch with their feelings and better able to express them, which promotes bonding with others. Because of this ability to connect, more women serve as caregivers for children.

5. Pain. Men and women perceive pain differently. In studies, women require more morphine than men to reach the same level of pain reduction. Women are also more likely to vocalize their pain and to seek treatment for their pain than are men.

6. Left brain vs. both hemispheres. Men tend to process better in the left hemisphere of the brain while women tend to process equally well between the two hemispheres. This difference explains why men are generally stronger with left-brain activities and approach problem-solving from a task-oriented perspective while women typically solve problems more creatively and are more aware of feelings while communicating.

7. Mathematical abilities. An area of the brain called the inferior-parietal lobule (IPL) is typically significantly larger in men. This section of the brain is thought to control mental mathematical ability. Interestingly, this is the same area of Einstein’s brain that was discovered to be abnormally large.

8. Brain size. Typically, men’s brains are 11-12% bigger than women’s brains. This size difference has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence, but is explained by the difference in physical size between men and women. Men need more neurons to control their greater muscle mass and larger body size, thus generally have a larger brain.

9. Susceptibility to disorders. Men are more apt to have dyslexia or other language problems. Women, on the other hand, are more susceptible to mood disorders such as depression and anxiety.

10. Spatial ability. Men typically have stronger spatial abilities, or being able to mentally represent a shape and its dynamics, whereas women typically struggle in this area. Men tend to retain a firm sense of direction.

All the above gets even more confusing, if we take into account that 15 to 20% of men happen to have a female type of brains, and about 10% of women have a male type of brains, which means that some percentage of men and women, no matter how small it seems, are partially programmed to the behavior and way of thinking of the opposite gender.

After all, males and females differ only by one Y chromosome, but this makes a real impact upon the way we think and react to so many things.

Ask a man for directions and he'll say 'go straight, and then turn left in 25 meters'. A woman will say, 'Turn right at the shoe store and left at the bakery'.
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