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Human Intelligence: Sex Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Lissy F. Jarvik
Lissy F. Jarvik*
Affiliation:
Psychogenetics Unit, Veterans Administration Hospital, Brentwood/Los Angeles, California, USA University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
*
760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA

Abstract

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An extensive review of the literature on sex differences in human intelligence leads to the conclusion that there is strong evidence for sex differences in processing both verbal and spatial information. The few genetic studies that there are all point toward a sex-linked mode of inheritance of certain spatial abilities.

Riassunto

RIASSUNTO

Un'ampia rassegna bibliografica sul problema delle differenze sessuali nell'intelligenza conduce alla conclusione che vi sono chiare indicazioni di differenze sessuali nell'elaborazione dell'informazione verbale e dell'informazione spaziale. I pochi studi genetici disponibili indicano tutti un meccanismo di trasmissione legato al sesso per alcune capacità spaziali.

Résumé

RÉSUMÉ

Une revue du problème des différences sexuelles dans l'intelligence conduit à la conclusion qu'il existent de claires indications pour des différences sexuelles dans l'élaboration des informations verbales et des informations spatiales. Les rares études génétiques indiquent toutes un mécanisme d'hérédité liée au sexe pour quelques abilités spatiales.

Zusammenfassung

ZUSAMMENFASSUNG

Eine Übersicht über die Literatur, die sich mit dem Problem der Geschlechtsunterschiede in der Intelligenz befassen, führt zum Ergebnis, dass deutliche Anzeichen von Geschlechtsunterschieden in der Verarbeitung der verbalen Information und der Rauminformation bestehen. Die wenigen verfügbaren Erbuntersuchungen darüber geben für einige Raumfähigkeiten alle einen geschlechtsgebundenen tibertragsmechanismus an.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 24 , Issue 3-4 , 07-10 1975 , pp. 189 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1975

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