Journal article
Understanding misunderstanding: a study of sex differences in meaning attribution
Abstract
There are biologically based sex differences in verbal abilities and in neuropsychological systems of verbal processing. Measurement of observable behaviour, however, does not say much about sex differences in the internal, semantic processing of verbal material. The present study, which was conducted in Canada, China and Russia, investigated sex differences in connotative meaning attribution to the most common concepts using an object scale …
Authors
Trofimova I
Journal
Psychological Research, Vol. 77, No. 6, pp. 748–760
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
November 2013
DOI
10.1007/s00426-012-0462-8
ISSN
0340-0727