Saturday, August 16, 2008

a woman's intuition...squashed! - psychology today October 2007.

Women dont have an intuitive advantage when it comes to reading someone or their thoughts over men, an old canard, an old orld gender stereotype...its not linked to an ability gap rather a motivational gap. Men can read as well as a woman can do, the trouble is men dont always want to.

key: answer? the narcissistic female!

Newlyweds can become empathically accurate, being too confident and arrogant that they lose motivation to reading each other after a year. Assuming you know what someones elses thinking kills accuracy.

Professional listeners, such as psychotherapists are no more accurate than laypeople based on facial expressions, not with shared experiences though, such as motherhood, alcoholism, parental divorce, etc.

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