Men and Women Responding to Different Visual Cues

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Link: http://psychcentral.com/news/2016/11/29/women-and-men-have-different-visual-perceptions/113186.html
Summary: This post is about a brand new study on men and women seeing things differently. They both look and absorb information in different ways, which does throw a suggestion at gender differences. Studies where done on over 500 participants over the course of a 5 week period to monitor and judge how comfortable these participants felt while looking at a face on a computer screen. The study showed that women looked more at the left handed side of faces and have a strong left eye bias. The study also showed that women will explore more of the face than men will. The psychologists saw that it was possible to tell what gender the person was when scanning the faces based on scanning patterns of how they looked at the face. It shows an 80% accuracy and since the sample size was large, researchers knew that this was not due to chance. Researchers are able to eliminate that this is not a cultural thing since over 60 different nationalities were tested. Even in Skype-like-scenarios it still showed that women look at things differently than men do. It can lead to impact many research fields such as the performance of everyday behaviors.

I do believe women and men look at things from a different perspective. It is not necessarily a bad thing though. It can help because it will show that there are different perspectives out there and it eliminates any kind of bias. When someone gathers information from one perspective it does not show that it is necessarily true. Other perspectives can show new information that no one has really thought about. Women and men have always been different with perspectives and it shows in this study. Simply just by looking at someone it comes out to be different. It just shows what women and men tend to look at first. It can offer a great deal of insight because maybe one gender can see something that the other gender failed to realize.

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