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Sex/Gender and the Individual

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Advanced Personality

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Freud once asked, What do women want? Long before Freud, and continuing to the present day, many men have wondered, Why do they (women) behave as they do? Similarly, many women ask, Why do they (men) behave as they do? In a widely read nonacademic volume, Gray (1992) suggested a simple answer with the title of his book, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: Women and men are from “different planets” and are “supposed to be different” (p. 10). From the very beginnings of their discipline in the late 1800s, psychologists have addressed the issue of why women and men think, feel, and behave as they do. At times, the prevailing answers were almost as simple as Gray's suggestion that the sexes come from different planets. At other times, and increasingly so today, the answers concerning the why of men's and women's experiences and actions have involved complex multifaceted frameworks.

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