男性易做出“非此即彼”的判斷
Men tend to make black-or-white judgments, while women tend to be much more nuanced in choices and decisions, British researchers suggest。
Study authors Vickie Pasterski, Karolina Zwierzynska and Zachary Estes, all from the University of Warwick, asked 113 people whether 50 objects fitted partially, fully or not at all into certain categories. For example, is paint a tool
Men were more likely to make absolute category judgments such as paint is either a tool or it isn't, but women made less certain category judgments to assign paint to the partial category。
"Of course, simply because we have found a significant sex difference in how men and women categorize does not mean that one method is intrinsically better than the other. For instance, male doctors may be more likely to quickly and confidently diagnose a set of symptoms as a disease," the study authors said in a statement. "Although this brings great advantages in treating diseases early, it obviously has massive disadvantages if the diagnosis is actually wrong. In many cases, a more open approach to categorizing or diagnosing would be more effective."
The findings are published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior。
英國研究人員稱男性習慣做出“非此即彼”的判斷，而女性在做選擇和決斷時則更爲模糊和微妙。
英國沃裏克大學的三位研究人員維奇•帕斯特爾斯奇，卡羅琳娜•威爾西斯卡和扎克里•伊斯特斯展開了一項調查，讓113位受訪者對50件物品進行歸類，判斷它們是部分、全部還是根本不屬於某一類物品。例如：油漆算工具嗎？
男性做出的判斷都很明確：是，或者不是，而女性做出的選擇就不那麼明確了，她們認爲油漆部分屬於工具。
這三位研究者在一份聲明中說：“當然，不能僅僅因爲我們發現男性和女性在對物品進行選擇分類時有所不同，就認爲他們做出的選擇有高下之別。譬如說，男性醫生在對患者進行診斷時能迅速而自信地做出判斷，這雖然能讓病人早日康復，但假如他們的診斷錯了呢？這顯然又是不好的一面。其實在很多情況下，對病人的症狀進行分析和診斷時，醫生們集思廣益效果會更好。”
他們的調查結果發表在性學雜誌《性行爲檔案》上。
