Gender Differences in Human Cognition

Klappentext This new volume in the Counterpoints series not only summarizes and addresses the validity (or invalidity) of research into gender differences, it also questions the ideology behind this research, and its consequences. Zusammenfassung This new volume in the Counterpoints series not only summarizes and addresses the validity (or invalidity) of research into gender differences! it also questions the ideology behind this research! and its consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors 1: John T.E. Richardson: Introduction to the Study of Gender Differences in Cognitiion 2: Janet Shibley Hyde and Nita M. McKinley: Gender Differences in Cognition: Results from Meta-Analyses 3: Paula J. Caplan and Jeremy B. Caplan: Do Sex-Related Cognitive Differences Exist, and Why Do People Seek Them Out? 4: Mary Crawford and Roger Chaffin: The Meanings of Difference: Cognition in Soical and Cultural Context 5: John T.E. Richardson: Conclusions from the Study of Gender Differences in Cognition Author index Subject index

Product details

• Authors: Paula J. Caplan, Paula J. Crawford Caplan, Mary Crawford, John T. E. Richardson
• Assisted by: Paula J. Caplan (Editor), Mary Crawford (Editor), Janet Shibley Hyde (Editor), Janet ShibleyJ.S. Hyde (Editor), John T. E. Richardson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9780195112917
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511291-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Counterpoints; Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language; Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories