Journal article

Plasticity, plasticity, plasticity . . . and the rigid problem of sex

C Fine, R Jordan-Young, A Kaiser, G Rippon

Trends in Cognitive Sciences | ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON | Published : 2013

Abstract

Why is popular understanding of female–male differences still based on rigid models of development, even though contemporary developmental sciences emphasize plasticity? Is it because the science of sex differences still works from the same rigid models?

University of Melbourne Researchers