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Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender de Paula J Caplan

Thinking Critically about Research on Sex and Gender

Autor Paula J Caplan, Jeremy Caplan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2008
The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this is provided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade author and instructor team.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780205579884
ISBN-10: 0205579884
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:3Nouă
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Psychology Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Undergraduate

Cuprins

    Introduction
    A Brief Historical Perspective on Sex-Difference Research
    Using Scientific Method to Study Sex and Gender
    Are Boys Better Than Girls at Math?
    Sex Differences in Spatial Abilities
    Do Females Have Better Verbal Abilities Than Males?
    Modern Research about Sex Differences in the Brain
    Do Hormones Make the Woman–or the Man?
    Sexuality
    The Myth of Women’s Masochism
    Should Relational Abilities Be Called “Dependency”?
    Sex Differences in Aggression
    Mother-Blame
    Breaking the Cycle of Bias: Becoming an Informed Judge of Research

Notă biografică

Paula J. Caplan, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist and Lecturer at Harvard University. She graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University and has won teaching awards from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations as a Professor at the University of Toronto and from Harvard. She is the author of ten books -- including They Say You're Crazy: How the World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal, Don't Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship, The Myth of Women's Masochism, Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World—and dozens of papers. She was a winner of a Distinguished Career Award and a Christine Ladd-Franklin Award from the Association for Women in Psychology, a Toronto YWCA Women of Distinction Award, an American Psychological Association Eminent Woman Psychologist Award, and a Canadian Association for Women in Science Woman of the Year Award.


Jeremy Caplan, Ph.D.,  is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta.  He received his doctorate at Brandeis University in Neuroscience.  His research focuses on the behavioral and brain basis of human memory from a variety of approaches including methods of experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience and mathematical modeling.  In 2008, Dr. Caplan received the prestigious Alberta Ingenuity Fund New Faculty Award to study the effects of interference on memory.

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The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this is provided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade author and instructor team.