A New study has revealed that men and women do in fact view the world differently. And not just theoretically but they actually focus on different things. The University of Bristol in the United Kingdom conducted a study which asked 26 females and 26 males to veiw multiple image stills from different films. One of the images was of a man waving his hand in the air while standing next to a woman who is waving a little closer to her body. The couple appears to be on a stage waving to some kind of audience ( I believe it is an image from a scene in the movie Love Actually). The results of the study reveal that women explore more of the picture than men do. A lot of the focusing involves eyes and hands, but females also focused on nonfacial areas and often focused on areas slightly below where the males focused. This can be attributed to the westernized idea of direct eye contact being threatening. Women may be associating more of a risk with direct eye contact than males. This could also be a sign of submitting to the males. Eye-tracking technology has been used in many studies to reveal gender-differences in eye movement. This is a heavily studied topic in the feild of Biopsychology. This just means we're one step closer to seeing how the battle of the sexes really works.
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Battle of the sexes: How Women and Men see things Differently
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