1: John T.E. Richardson: Introduction to the Study of Gender
Differences in Cognition
2: Janet Shibley Hyde and Nita M. McKinley: Gender Differences in
Cognition: Results from Meta-Analyses
3: Paula J. Caplan and Jeremy B. Caplan: Do Sex-Related Cognitive
Differences Exist, and Why do People Seek Them Out?
4: Mary Crawford and Roger Chaffin: The Meanings of Differences:
Cognition in Social and Cultural Context
5: John T.E. Richardson: Conclusions from the Study of Gender
Differences in Cognition
"This evaluation of current research in gender studies as they
relate to cognition should be of particular interest to
psychologists, educators, and policy-makers."--Shirley R. Rausher,
Readings
"Within the first pages, the authors focus their scholarly energies
on verbal, spatial, and mathematical abilities because, we are
told, researchers typically have searched for individual
differences within such test domains. All four authors provide
highly readable 30-page chapters, each taking a variation on the
same perspective, i.e., that whatever cognitive differences you
thought had been demonstrated between males and females should not
be considered
biological . . . This reviewer found the book's contents highly
stimulating and informative, providing both valid and
pseudoarguments to reject the very existence of sex differences in
verbal, spatial,
mathematical, and scientific abilities. . . . future researchers
ignore the message of this text at their peril."--Journal of the
International Neuropsychological Society
"Results of some research suggest that gender differences have been
growing smaller over recent decades. Here, five contributions
discuss whether women and men differ in terms of their intellectual
abilities; and, if there are differences, what are the
origins--biology, childhood influences, cultural stereotypes? If
there are no differences, why do people continue to assert that
differences do exist? The essays discuss relevant research using
the techniques of
meta-analysis, pitfalls in the conception and execution of research
on the topic, and the negative consequences of a focus on
differences."--Reference & Research Book News
"This evaluation of current research in gender studies as they
relate to cognition should be of particular interest to
psychologists, educators, and policy-makers."--Shirley R. Rausher,
Readings
"Within the first pages, the authors focus their scholarly energies
on verbal, spatial, and mathematical abilities because, we are
told, researchers typically have searched for individual
differences within such test domains. All four authors provide
highly readable 30-page chapters, each taking a variation on the
same perspective, i.e., that whatever cognitive differences you
thought had been demonstrated between males and females should not
be considered
biological . . . This reviewer found the book's contents highly
stimulating and informative, providing both valid and
pseudoarguments to reject the very existence of sex differences in
verbal, spatial,
mathematical, and scientific abilities. . . . future researchers
ignore the message of this text at their peril."--Journal of the
International Neuropsychological Society
"Results of some research suggest that gender differences have been
growing smaller over recent decades. Here, five contributions
discuss whether women and men differ in terms of their intellectual
abilities; and, if there are differences, what are the
origins--biology, childhood influences, cultural stereotypes? If
there are no differences, why do people continue to assert that
differences do exist? The essays discuss relevant research using
the techniques of
meta-analysis, pitfalls in the conception and execution of research
on the topic, and the negative consequences of a focus on
differences."--Reference & Research Book News
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