The Nature-Nurture Debates: 25 Years of Challenges in Understanding the Psychology of Gender
The Nature-Nurture Debates: 25 Years of Challenges in Understanding the Psychology of Gender
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DOI：
10.1177/1745691613484767
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
Wood, Wendy
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作者：
Eagly, Alice H.;Wood, Wendy
在性别心理学中，关于先天和后天的争论仍然很有争议，尽管人们普遍认为这两种因果解释都很重要。在这篇文章中，我们提供了自然变迁的历史分析和后天对性别差异和相似的解释，自心理科学协会成立以来的四分之一个世纪。我们考虑越来越多地使用元分析如何帮助澄清性别差异的发现，如果不是对这些影响的因果解释的话。为了说明这些发展，本文将社会化和择偶描述为性别研究的两个重要领域。我们还强调了正在发展的研究趋势，这些趋势解决了先天和后天共同努力产生性别差异和相似的互动过程。这样的理论蕴含着更好的科学前景，以及对女性和男性心理的更连贯的描述，应该会被证明对更广泛的公众产生更大的影响。
Nature-nurture debates continue to be highly contentious in the psychology of gender despite the common recognition that both types of causal explanations are important. In this article, we provide a historical analysis of the vicissitudes of nature and nurture explanations of sex differences and similarities during the quarter century since the founding of the Association for Psychological Science. We consider how the increasing use of meta-analysis helped to clarify sex difference findings if not the causal explanations for these effects. To illustrate these developments, this article describes socialization and preferences for mates as two important areas of gender research. We also highlight developing research trends that address the interactive processes by which nature and nurture work together in producing sex differences and similarities. Such theorizing holds the promise of better science as well as a more coherent account of the psychology of women and men that should prove to be more influential with the broader public.