• DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.60.6.581
Corpus ID: 5940305

The gender similarities hypothesis.

@article{Hyde2005TheGS,
  title={The gender similarities hypothesis.},
  author={J. Hyde},
  journal={The American psychologist},
  year={2005},
  volume={60 6},
  pages={
          581-592
        }
}

• J. Hyde
• Published 2005
• Psychology, Medicine
• The American psychologist

The differences model, which argues that males and females are vastly different psychologically, dominates the popular media. Here, the author advances a very different view, the gender similarities hypothesis, which holds that males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables. Results from a review of 46 meta-analyses support the gender similarities hypothesis. Gender differences can vary substantially in magnitude at different ages and depend on the context in which… Expand