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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