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美處
某事
做某事
人做某事
…而且…
事
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Why Men Are Men and
Women Are Women
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e already know that as children, boys wrestle and girls play make-believe.
Boys often like building things and taking them apart. On the other hand,
girls prefer to host and attend pretend tea parties. But why do these differences
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exist?
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Several months after babies are born, female babies like to look at a person's
face to read emotions while male infants prefer to look at objects. Few would
disagree that men care more about objects while women tend to empathize with
others. However, the sex of our brain is not always as clear-cut as the sex of our
body. In one experiment, a tough man, who seemed very competitive, was shown
to possess a high degree of empathy, while a woman scored the highest in a hand- 10
eye coordination test at which men were thought to do better. This shows that the
distinctions that set us apart might not be as clear as we think.
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Differences between the sexes are hard to understand and so are
relationships. What on earth makes people fall in love? According to a report, men
prefer a particular waist-to-hip ratio, which indicates reliable fertility, while women 15
care more about a man's height, which is thought to be related to success. These
are some of the reasons for initial attraction.
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we see
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Some psychologists suggest that our feelings may change the
our partners Newlyweds were given a brain scan. The "reward" parts of their
brains were filled with feel-good chemicals while the critical judgment part was 20
suppressed. It seems that the old expression "love is blind" has some truth.
truth.
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