SOCI 1040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Transvestism, Gender Variance, Casual Sex
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No one can truly give up gender; others will try to define and interact on gendered terms. Testosterone does not cause aggression; aggressive behavior increases testosterone. Sanctioned ways violence can be used: boxing, bar fights, police, military, etc. Western viewpoint: we cannot have sexual orientation w/out gender. Meta-analysis: data from many different experiments to compare correlations. Results may not be accurate: participates very susceptible to social cues to determine behavior. Differences hypothesis: a widely accepted view that men and women are essentially. From different planets in their behavior, patterns of speaking and more. Hyde is arguing for the similarities hypothesis: that males and females are similar on most, if not all psychological variables = more alike than different. The role of meta-analysis in assessing psychological gender differences. Gender differences were established in four areas: verbal ability, visual-spatial ability, mathematical ability, and aggression. Meta-analysis for aggregating research findings across many studies of the same question.
