This makes sense to me, but it also makes me question the antithesis of this finding. Are women more apt to notice ugliness or flaws, also, then? Are we as females genetically predispositioned to notice the smallest details in things, including our own bodies and those of others, and react to them?
My logic may be way off. The fact that the sample size of this experiment was 20 people doesn't help either.
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dearest MEGan,
you think saying "appreciate beauty", is a bit....much?
I mean, have they collectively defined beauty, if its in the eye of the beholder...how can we objectify it?
Or is it just mentioning you ladies have a more keen eye to detail, and then calling details...beauty?
interesting either way, i think this may be my brute ego-headed masculinity peaking its head in and tryin to discredit the study.
hmm. how interesting.
butttt, I really don't know how appropriate studies are that say "women do one thing, men do the other" because, as we are finding (consider transgenders) gender boundaries are not black and white.
But on top of that, there's ALWAYS the nature versus nature debate that cannot separate itself from Human Nature. How do we know that the 20 women/men in the study were conditioned by their culture to follow those gender stereotypes?
and of course this green fellow has a very valid point as well. who can say you better appreciate beauty by noticing the details? what if the real beauty of something is understanding the larger picture?
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