Sunday, May 19, 2013

Week 14

Learner Objective:  Behavior can innate because it is genetically based.

People often categorize male and female behavior but recent research by Bobbi Carothers and the University of Rochester suggest differently.  Using data from over 13,000 individuals and thirteen different studies Carothers found that there were some categorical differences but psychological measures tended to overlap.  Men and women fell into a continuum over areas like sex and relationships instead of the assumed categorical areas.

This study relates to the learner objective because it shows how some behaviors are genetically based but not necessarily according to gender.

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