Men's and women's personalities appear to differ in several respects. Social role theories of
development assume gender differences result primarily from perceived gender roles …

Secondary analyses of Revised NEO Personality Inventory data from 26 cultures (N=
23,031) suggest that gender differences are small relative to individual variation within …

Previous research suggested that sex differences in personality traits are larger in
prosperous, healthy, and egalitarian cultures in which women have more opportunities …

Numerous studies have documented subtle but consistent sex differences in self-reports and
observer-ratings of five-factor personality traits, and such effects were found to show well …

Most research looking at psychological similarities and differences between women and
men has been carried out in North America and Western Europe. In this paper, I review a …

Taxometric methods enable determination of whether the latent structure of a construct is
dimensional or taxonic (nonarbitrary categories). Although sex as a biological category is …

Psychological differences between women and men, far from being invariant as a biological
explanation would suggest, fluctuate in magnitude across cultures. Moreover, contrary to the …

Four meta-analyses were conducted to examine gender differences in personality in the
literature (1958–1992) and in normative data for well-known personality inventories (1940 …

This article interprets the five‐factor model as subsuming variation in normative, species‐
typical systems with adaptive functions in the human environment of evolutionary …

Identifies several key issues in personality psychology, focusing on the distinction between
approaches emphasizing species-typical tendencies and those emphasizing systematic …