Browsing by Subject "Sex differences"
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Conference Object
Age and Gender Differences in Performance on a Spatial Rotation Test
(2003)This study investigated differential group performance on a spatial rotation test. A 19-item multiple-choice test was administered to a random sample of 107 students in grades 5 to 8 in an elementary school and a gymnasium ...
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Article
Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism
(2013)In autism, heterogeneity is the rule rather than the exception. One obvious source of heterogeneity is biological sex. Since autism was first recognized, males with autism have disproportionately skewed research. Females ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Can 'Limited Prosocial Emotions' be changed in early childhood? : an examination of three treatment programs
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2018-05)Εισαγωγή: Παιδιά με ΧΣ αποτελούν πρόκληση αφού δεν ανταποκρίνονται στις εμπειρικές θεραπείες που επιφέρουν αποτελέσματα στην αντικοινωνική συμπεριφορά παιδιών χωρίς ΧΣ. Αυτό αποδίδεται σε ιδιαίτερους αναπτυξιακούς παράγοντες ...
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Book
Gender, language and the periphery: grammatical and social gender from the margins
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016)
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Book
Hommes galants, femmes faciles: etude socio-semantique et diachronique
(L'Harmattan, 2004)Cet ouvrage retrace les étapes de la construction socio-culturelle de l'opposition masculin/féminin à partir d'un grand corpus de textes informatisés. On y découvre comment le péjoration qui affecte le paradigme féminin ...
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Book
Intersexion: langues romanes, langues et genre
(Lincom Europa, 2012)Le domaine de recherche qui se situe à la croisée entre le langage et le genre est particulièrement fécond : non seulement parce qu'il permet d'explorer les différents « genres » qui s'avèrent pertinents dans l'étude des ...
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Article
A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure
(2014)The prevalence, age of onset, and symptomatology of many neuropsychiatric conditions differ between males and females. To understand the causes and consequences of sex differences it is important to establish where they ...
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Prenatal and postnatal hormone effects on the human brain and cognition
(2013)This review examines the role of hormones in the development of social and nonsocial cognition and the brain. Research findings from human studies designed to elucidate the effects of both prenatal and postnatal exposure ...
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Sex differences in response to a panicogenic challenge procedure: An experimental evaluation of panic vulnerability in a non-clinical sample
(2006)Epidemiological studies show that women are twice as likely as men to develop panic disorder (PD) during their lifetimes. Data from retrospective studies also suggest that women are more distressed by panic and other ...
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Report
Students' Solution Strategies in Spatial Rotation Tasks
(2002)One hundred and seven 5th-8th graders were tested on spatial rotation multiple-choice items to determine age and gender differences in spatial ability. Thirty-one of them were subsequently interviewed. They were asked to ...