男性易做出“非此即彼”的判断

屈联西

  2011年04月19日  环球时报

　　Men tend to make black-or-white judgments, while women tend to be much more nuanced in choices and decisions, British researchers suggest。
　　Study authors Vickie Pasterski, Karolina Zwierzynska and Zachary Estes, all from the University of Warwick, asked 113 people whether 50 objects fitted partially, fully or not at all into certain categories. For example, is paint a tool
　　Men were more likely to make absolute category judgments such as paint is either a tool or it isn't, but women made less certain category judgments to assign paint to the partial category。
　　"Of course, simply because we have found a significant sex difference in how men and women categorize does not mean that one method is intrinsically better than the other. For instance, male doctors may be more likely to quickly and confidently diagnose a set of symptoms as a disease," the study authors said in a statement. "Although this brings great advantages in treating diseases early, it obviously has massive disadvantages if the diagnosis is actually wrong. In many cases, a more open approach to categorizing or diagnosing would be more effective."
　　The findings are published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior。
　　英国研究人员称男性习惯做出“非此即彼”的判断，而女性在做选择和决断时则更为模糊和微妙。
　　英国沃里克大学的三位研究人员维奇•帕斯特尔斯奇，卡罗琳娜•威尔西斯卡和扎克里•伊斯特斯展开了一项调查，让113位受访者对50件物品进行归类，判断它们是部分、全部还是根本不属于某一类物品。例如：油漆算工具吗？
　　男性做出的判断都很明确：是，或者不是，而女性做出的选择就不那么明确了，她们认为油漆部分属于工具。
　　这三位研究者在一份声明中说：“当然，不能仅仅因为我们发现男性和女性在对物品进行选择分类时有所不同，就认为他们做出的选择有高下之别。譬如说，男性医生在对患者进行诊断时能迅速而自信地做出判断，这虽然能让病人早日康复，但假如他们的诊断错了呢？这显然又是不好的一面。其实在很多情况下，对病人的症状进行分析和诊断时，医生们集思广益效果会更好。”
　　他们的调查结果发表在性学杂志《性行为档案》上。