Transcription of The Gender Similarities Hypothesis
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The Gender Similarities Hypothesis Janet Shibley Hyde University of Wisconsin Madison The differences model, which argues that males and fe- searchers highlighted Gender Similarities . Thorndike males are vastly different psychologically, dominates the (1914), for example, believed that psychological Gender popular media. Here, the author advances a very different differences were too small, compared with within- Gender view, the Gender Similarities Hypothesis , which holds that variation, to be important. Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1918). males and females are similar on most, but not all, psy- reviewed available research on Gender differences in men- chological variables.
variables. That is, men and women, as well as boys and girls, are more alike than they are different. In terms of effect sizes, the gender similarities hypothesis states that most psychological gender differences are in the close-to-zero (d 0.10) or small (0.11 d 0.35) range, a few are in the moderate range (0.36 d 0.65), and very few are
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