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Card 6

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E-S theory- women better at emphathising, men better at systemising. Gender difference due to selection pressures. Men able to systemise with better precission gained evolutionary advantage. Tend+Befriend- women focused on interpersonal relationships

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Card 7

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Natural experiment. Male-female stress responses. Measured cortisol levels 1 week before and immediatley befire exams. Found males increased, but females decreased. Shows that they have different ways of dealing with stress

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Card 8

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Tend and befriend stemed from different challenges by men and women. Different ways of dealing with stress, Adaptive response for women to protect themselves+young. Apadptive to group together in family units

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Card 9

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Questionaire. Found males tended to be systemisers and females empathisers. 17% men had empathisisng brain. 17% women had systmatic brain.

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Card 10

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Deterministic, raises socially sensitive issues, speculative

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