Previous research has indicated that 70-85% of women and girls show a bias to hold infants, or dolls, to the left side of their body. This bias is not matched in males (e.g. deChateau, Holmberg & Winberg, 1978; Todd, 1995). This study tests an explanation of cradling preferences in terms of hemispheric specialization for the perception of facial emotional expression. Thirty-two right-handed par...

BACKGROUND Gender differences in health are commonly observed by epidemiologists. Little is known about lay beliefs concerning the gender patterning of common conditions. METHODS Using the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study, we analysed responses to a question in a postal questionnaire asking whether respondents thought men or women (or both equally) were more likely to have heart disease, canc...

The perception is that women have been understudied relative to men. It has been sufficient to cause Congress to enact legislation to require that a clinical trial must be "designed and carried out in a manner sufficient to provide for a valid analysis of whether the variables being studied in the trial affect women ellipsis differently than other subjects in the trial." We looked for evidence ...

Genealogical, demographic, and economic data collected in a rural Trinidadian village indicate that: (1) individuals with more land have more offspring, (2) males with more land have higher mating success, (3) young adults with parents resident in the village have higher reproductive success, and (4) the residence o f father has a strong effect on young adult male reproductive success, but appa...

Disorders of gender identity involve a greater number of disciplines than most other areas of psychiatry.a Endocrinologists, speech and language therapists, and surgeons (ears, nose and throat, plastic and urological) are routinely involved. Further, the field is highly politicised, attracting much public fascination and arousing strong opinions. Disorders of gender identity have probably alway...

In humans, acid-base balance is crucial to cell homeostasis. Acidosis is observed in numerous inflammatory processes, primarily acute conditions such as sepsis, trauma, or acute respiratory distress where females tend to exhibit better prognosis compared with males. The mechanisms underlying these gender-dependent differences are multiple, probably involving hormonal and genetic factors, partic...

horizontal transmission of an isolate of the etomopathogenic fungus, beauveria bassiana kcf102, was examined by allowing inoculated eurygaster integriceps put. adults to mate with non-inoculated ones. in case of susceptibility to b. bassiana, there was no significant difference between the males and females. however, there was significant difference among treatments for mortality of non-inocula...