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ERIC Number: EJ751341
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Sep
Pages: 1
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0003-066X
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Judgments of Similarity Are Psychological: The Importance of Importance
Zuriff, G. E.
American Psychologist, v61 n6 p641 Sep 2006
Comments on the article by J. S. Hyde (see record EJ733581), which concluded that males and females are similar on most psychological variables. Zuriff suggests that Hyde missed the fact judgments of similarity and difference are psychological, not scientific, and that Hyde was dismissive of dismissal of any gender difference that is dependent on context or is consistent with social-role theory. Zuriff argues that the important fact is that in a wide variety of important contexts, males and females behave, think, and feel very differently, and this observation yields the psychological judgment that males and females are vastly different.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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