Summary of Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. I adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming.
#2 The implicit mind is the process by which we automatically associate things with people. It is not reflective, and it does not require awareness or intention. It simply takes in associations from the environment. These associations may be reactionary, even when our consciously held beliefs are modern and progressive.
#3 When gender is salient in the environment, or we categorize someone as male or female, our unconscious attitudes toward those categories are automatically activated. These associations can affect our perception of others, and our own selves.
#4 The self is a dynamic chameleon that changes from moment to moment in response to its social environment. The part of your self-concept that is active depends on the context. In some situations, your active self will be personal and idiosyncratic, while in other situations your social identity will take over.

Sujets

• Neurosciences
• Science
• 454 Life Sciences
• Neuroscience
• Biology
• Sciences et techniques
• Life Sciences

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669397908
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Cordelia Fine's Delusions of Gender
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. I adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing cars, or opening bottles, oddly incompetent I found myself becoming.

#2

The implicit mind is the process by which we automatically associate things with people. It is not reflective, and it does not require awareness or intention. It simply takes in associations from the environment. These associations may be reactionary, even when our consciously held beliefs are modern and progressive.

#3

When gender is salient in the environment, or we categorize someone as male or female, our unconscious attitudes toward those categories are automatically activated. These associations can affect our perception of others, and our own selves.

#4

The self is a dynamic chameleon that changes from moment to moment in response to its social environment. The part of your self-concept that is active depends on the context. In some situations, your active self will be personal and idiosyncratic, while in other situations your social identity will take over.

#5

The way we think of ourselves can be changed simply by asking us to mark a box for either male or female. Even subtle stimuli can bring about a change in self-perception.

#6

The boundary of the self-concept is permeable to other people’s conceptions of you. When your perception of them is stereotypical, your own mind follows suit. People socially tune their self-evaluations to blend with the opinion of the self held by others.

#7

The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another person can transform both self-perception and behavior. In a study, women who thought they were about to meet a man with traditional views of women perceived themselves as more feminine than women who expected to meet a man with more modern opinions.

#8

A dynamic sense of self helps us to adapt to the social world. It is not hard to see how useful and adaptable a dynamic sense of self can be. It can help us to fit ourselves into, and better perform, our current social role.

#9

Womanly intuition and tenderness are two distinct feminine skills. Women are typically hard-wired to see, feel, wince, run, and alleviate pain, while men are typically hard-wired to systemize and analyze.

#10

There is a large gap between what people think they are and what they actually are, when it comes to empathy. Women and men may differ not so much in actual empathy, but in how empathetic they would like to appear to others.

#11

The EQ and SQ are often used to test for the gender of the subject, by asking whether the subject is interested in activities that are disproportionately associated with males or with females. Thus, women might give themselves higher scores on these tests because they are priming their gender.

#12

The idea of womanly intuition is not without empirical support. Women score higher than men on a test called the Reading the Mind from the Eyes test, and they are better at decoding the most controlled forms of communication, like facial expression.

#13

The most stringent test of empathy is the empathic accuracy test, which involves two people waiting together for an experiment to begin. They are unobtrusively filmed and recorded for six minutes, and then explained the true purpose of the experiment.

#14

The empathic accuracy test can be improved by adding a financial incentive for those who perform well. This increases men’s empathic performance, while female empathic performance remains the same.

#15

The salience of cultural expectations about gender and empathizing affects a person’s ability and motivation to empathize. When people take the first-person, I perspective of someone else, the stereotypical traits of the other permeate and seep into the perspective-taker’s own self-concept.

#16

The idea that men and women reason about moral situations differently is based on the idea that women favor the ethic of care, which takes into account the feelings and relationships of those involved, while men favor the ethic of justice, which favors abstract principles of justice.

#17

The authors argue that it is the salience of gender and gender-related norms that lead to differences between women and men. When we are not thinking of ourselves as male or female, our judgments are the same.

#18

The classic test of mental rotation ability is the three-dimensional shape test. People’s mental rotation ability is malleable, and it can be greatly enhanced by training. But there are far quicker, easier ways to modulate mental rotation ability.

#19

The social context can change the mind’s power and effectiveness in many ways. For example, being in the wrong social group can create a trickier psychological path to navigate.

#20

The threat of being judged and treated poorly based on a negative stereotype about your group can have a tangible effect on your ability. For example, female interlopers in a mostly male domain can experience stereotype threat, which can suppress their ability.