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Gender bender. (On the Contrary).(Brief Article)

American Prospect, The,  September, 2002  by Kaminer, Wendy

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WOMEN ARE HARDWIRED TO EXPERIENCE and recall emotions more readily than men, according to a study announced last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as on CNN's morning show. "The wiring of emotional experience and the coding of that experience into memory is much more tightly integrated in women than in men," according to the study's lead author, psychologist Turhan Canli of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Perhaps because this statement--dressed in the language of neuroscience--confirms long-standing stereotypes ...

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