In this paper I explpore what is currently known about sexual dimorphisms of the human brain and the developmental processes that produce them. Specifically, I focus on how genetic information brings about changes in the prenatal and neonatal hormonal environment, how that hormonal environment affects developing neural structures, and what the ultimate results of those changes are.

The goal of the current study was to examine interpersonal predictors of stress generation as well as explore gender differences. Two hundred and six (67 male and 139 female) college students completed an initial online assessment of reassurance seeking and sociotropy and maintained a 14-day diary of their mood and stressful life events. Logistic regression analyses examined male and female par...

The short form of the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory was administered to 952 fourthand fifth-grade chiMren (482 males, 470 females)from 41 classes. The children's teachers completed Coopersmith's Behavior Rating Form, a measure o f self-esteem-related behavior. In the self-ratings, girls were significantly lower than boys; in the teachers' ratings, girls were significantly higher. In 32 o f ...

the evidence suggests that emotional relationship with the opposite sex has been extended and a large group of juvenile's have experienced social relationships with the opposite sex. the basic problem of study is that how juveniles experienced consequences the relationship with the opposite sex on live? and are consequences the relationship with the opposite sex different or similarity amo...

The paper discusses the validity of computer interviewing compared to the paper and pencil one. The results support the hypothesis that computer interviewing is at least as appro­ priate data gathering technique as classical survey inte/viewing. Especially when soliciting some highly personal information, as in the case of a research on sexual behavior, microcom­ puters being the "cooler media"...

This study examined solution strategies and gender differences in a Spatial Visualization (Vz) task. Two kinds of strategies, analytic and holistic or spatial manipulation, were operationalized by a self-report questionnaire and three time based variables obtained in a comp uterized form board task, the R-E. The variables were: time of initial encoding of the target stimulus, duration of proces...

Sex is an easily identifiable characteristic of an individual. Sex composition of a population refers to the balance between male and female in any population. It can be expressed either in the form of proportion of a particular sex in the population or as a ratio between the population of two sexes. As is obvious, the first one gives the number of males per hundred females or number of males p...