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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randomling" data-source="post: 967789" data-attributes="member: 8432">What research is this? I'd be interested in having a look at the paper(s), as this has been a hotly debated topic in cognitive science for a long time. I'm a linguistics student, so I have a little interest in how the brain works myself.I'm not denying the existence of a human nature, or that there are a number of things that work differently for men and women, physically, mentally, and socially. But the vast majority of cognitive function is the same for both sexes: we reason in the same way, we acquire language in the same way, we do mathematics in the same way, we use symbols in the same way, etc, etc, etc.But the thing is, it's very tricky (methodologically speaking) to differentiate innate behaviours from socially acquired behaviours. I don't doubt that there is a great deal of truth in what you're saying. I'm only questioning whether this is a totally inborn difference, a totally social difference, or a mixture of the two.My instinct says that it's a mixture of the two. (I realize I'm backtracking here slightly.) I honestly think that social reality plays as big a part in these gender stereotypes as physiological factors (eg the brain) do.IMHO again. But like I say, I'd be interested to know who said this and where. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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