PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Relational Aggression, Mental Rotation, Gender Role
30 Sep 2016
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Gender comparisons: social behaviour, personality, communication, and cognition. Aggression: behaviour that is intended to hurt someone, either physically or verbally. Boys demonstrate higher levels of physical aggression than girls across age, socioeconomic group, and culture. Girls demonstrate higher levels of relational aggression than boys: harming others through nonphysical hurtful manipulation of peer relationships. Environmental: adults less tolerant of physical aggression in girls than in boys. Crime rates reflect the stereotype that males are more aggressive than females. Prosocial behaviour: voluntary behaviour indented to benefit someone else. Girls help or comfort others more than boys (eisenberg et al. , 2009) Men help others more than women, especially in dangerous situations. Women are more likely to provide psychological support than men. Boys more rewarded for rescuing and chivalry (eagly, 2009) Women more easily influenced than men (eagly & carli, 1981) Group pressure conformity studies: small but stronger gender differences. Females socialized to yield to social influence, males socialized to wield social influence.
