With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been
exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three decades of human MRI and postmortem …

The view that humans comprise only two types of beings, women and men, a framework that
is sometimes referred to as the “gender binary,” played a profound role in shaping the …

Women are thought to fare better in verbal abilities, especially in verbal-fluency and verbal-
memory tasks. However, the last meta-analysis on sex/gender differences in verbal fluency …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Sixth Edition, provides a psychological and evidence-
informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many criminological and …

The presence, magnitude, and significance of sex differences in the human brain are hotly
debated topics in the scientific community and popular media. This debate is largely fueled …

A frequently observed research finding is that females outperform males on tasks of verbal
and language abilities, but there is considerable variability in effect sizes from sample to …

Adolescents spend a substantial and increasing amount of time using digital media
(smartphones, computers, social media, gaming, Internet), but existing studies do not agree …

Sex differences in the human brain are of interest for many reasons: for example, there are
sex differences in the observed prevalence of psychiatric disorders and in some …

The terms pampering and spoiling have roots within early psychoanalytic literature, and over
time they have become a part of the vernacular. This entry will focus on pampering/spoiling …

In Germany, large, population-based cohort studies have been implemented in order to
identify risk and protective factors for maintaining health across the life span. The purpose of …