Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity…and the rigid problem of sex
Trends in Cognitive SciencesPublished 28 October 2013
Cordelia Fine, Rebecca Jordan‐Young, Anelis Kaiser, Gina Rippon
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Abstract
Why is popular understanding of female–male differences still based on rigid models of development, even though contemporary developmental sciences emphasize plasticity? Is it because the science of sex differences still works from the same rigid models?
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