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Empathizing-systemizing cognitive styles: Effects of sex and academic degree

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  • Rachel Kidron
  • Leon Kaganovskiy
  • Simon Baron-Cohen

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This study tests if the drives to empathize (E) and systemize (S), measured by the Systemizing Quotient-Revised (SQ-R) and Empathy Quotient (EQ), show effects of sex and academic degree. The responses of 419 students from the Humanities and the Physical Sciences were analyzed in terms of the E-S theory predictions. Results confirm that there is an interaction between sex, degree and the drive to empathize relative to systemize. Female students in the Humanities on average had a stronger drive to empathize than to systemize in comparison to males in the Humanities. Male students in the Sciences on average had a stronger drive to systemize than to empathize in comparison to females in the Sciences. Finally, students in the sciences on average had a stronger drive to systemize more than to empathize, irrespective of their sex. The reverse is true for students in the Humanities. These results strongly replicate earlier findings.

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  • Rachel Kidron & Leon Kaganovskiy & Simon Baron-Cohen, 2018. "Empathizing-systemizing cognitive styles: Effects of sex and academic degree," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(3), pages 1-17, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0194515
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194515
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