Dental Hygiene Fear: Gender and Age Differences

Understanding Fear of Opportunism in Global Prize-Based Science Contests: Evidence for Gender and Age Differences

Global prize-based science contests have great potential for tapping into diverse knowledge on a global scale and overcoming important scientific challenges. A necessary step for knowledge to be utilized in these contests is for that knowledge to be disclosed. Knowledge disclosure, however, is paradoxical in nature: in order for the value of knowledge to be assessed, inventors must disclose the...

Age and Gender Differences in Self-Esteem

Research and theorizing on gender and age differences in self-esteem have played a prominent role in psychology over the past 20 years. However, virtually all empirical research has been undertaken in the United States or other Western industrialized countries, providing a narrow empirical base from which to draw conclusions and develop theory. To broaden the empirical base, the present researc...

Gender, Race, Age and Fear in the City

Gender Differences in Cognitive Ability from Age

This study, a cross-sectional study of adults who were administered the CNS Vital Signs test battery when it was being standardized, investigated whether there are gender differences in the rate of neurocognitive decline with age. As a group, men scored better on tests of visual memory, executive function and psychomotor speed. Women scored better in tests of verbal memory, processing speed, an...

Age-dependent gender differences in hypertension management.

OBJECTIVE Despite gender-neutral guidelines, prior studies suggest that women have lower rates of hypertension control and these differences may vary with age. Accordingly, we compared rates of hypertension control between women and men as a function of age. METHODS Within three integrated healthcare systems in the Cardiovascular Research Network, we studied all patients seen from 2001 to 200...