Study suggests women just as willing to take risks as men
From the University of Exeter press release: Women can be just as risk-taking as men — or even more so — when the conventional macho measures of daring — such as betting vast sums on a…
Study looks at gender differences in reactions to prosocial behaviour
From the University of Zurich press release: Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men. To gain a more in-depth understanding of this behavior, neuroscientists from the Department of…
Study suggests gender differences in financial risk tolerance linked to different response to income uncertainty
From the University of Missouri-Columbia press release: Prior research has long shown that women are, on average, less risk tolerant in their financial decisions than men. This is a concern as investors with low levels of…
Mouse study suggests brain structures controlling sexual and aggressive behavior are wired differently in the sexes
From the NYU Langone Health / NYU School of Medicine press release: Brain structures that control sexual and aggressive behavior in mice are wired differently in females than in males. This the finding of a study…
What makes alcoholics drink? Research shows it’s more complex than supposed
From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: What makes alcoholics drink? New research has found that in both men and women with alcohol dependence, the major factor predicting the amount of drinking seems to be…
Heavy alcohol use alters brain functioning differently in young men and women
From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: Scientists have found that brain functions in young men and women are changed by long-term alcohol use, but that these changes are significantly different in men and women.…
So-called ‘bright girl effect’ does not last into adulthood, study finds
From the Case Western Reserve University press release: The notion that young females limit their own progress based on what they believe about their intelligence — called the “bright girl effect” — does not persist into…
Links between parents’ earnings, gender roles, mental health
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: The sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s suggested that women and men would have equal shots at happiness — whether they were their families’ primary breadwinners…
Study suggests strong friendships among women in the workplace reduce conflict
From the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences press release: According to a new study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, when employers foster an office environment that supports positive, social relationships between women…
Study looks at gender differences in neurological effect of depression
From the Frontiers press release: When researchers in the UK exposed depressed adolescents to happy or sad words and imaged their brains, they found that depression has different effects on the brain activity of male…