The mental traits of sex : an experimental investigation of the normal mind in men and women / by Helen Bradford Thompson.

  • Helen Thompson Woolley
Date:
1903
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Credit: The mental traits of sex : an experimental investigation of the normal mind in men and women / by Helen Bradford Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE XXI]V—Coxttuued, | Women. Men. 13. Disposition to brood and worry : | Mina de. « crncs ae tistavstoinncsikiel Soles orale wale ee es 9 10 DOING Sere eee ean ts ees SE eee ee 4 6 Ne eiey US sn aed pues Gye Gocereidtees > RENEE MSW Hale 12 9 14. Habit as to placing blame for mishaps: 7 Disposed to blame self. 5. at 10 10 Disposed to blame. others... cod oe cs 6 6 Disposed to Diam’ fares os os eas nse pees 2 I Disposed to place blame where it belongs... 6 6 15. Conscientiousness :? MEG, OEE Unite hs CP oes OEE OL eee Be REO. 14 14 SOME ees tii ee ouaact ais heats Bie eeu onc: 6 7 ING TO te soos ea-aliecals) ss exo sis Wl dh neo sie 0 macys e a's sia 6 5 3 16. Standards of conduct: CU SIOUS 5 a ircnenc cee Fg lacie eeonousn Se de wie 3 3 LUG ) bial nas ae baer Eiebyreaarar irr Oniny artis Seca ae a 12 11 PISUARG G50) 5 Vince teeth 0 emp Gee Saye 6 Mis HR 5 6 Religious and ethical equally.............. 4 2 Ethicalsand esthetic: equally .0.. nse 8. I 3 women, or to a more complicated response to emotion on their part, it is difficult to judge. The result of the plethysmographic test (see above, sec. A) which showed the bodily response of the men to the stimuli used more marked and immediate than that of the women, would point to the former hypothesis. In the only case in which the subjects were questioned as to the physical effects of a particular emotion (viz., the case of question 18, on embarrassment, in sec. 5) more effects per individual were reported by the men. The tendency to introspection (questions 4 and 5) was reported the same for both sexes, except for a slightly greater tendency toward day-dreaming in the *One man and one woman were unable to answer this question. One man thought himself equally likely to blame himself and others, 2In the case of one man this question was omitted.
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