Gender Research: Exploring the Differences Between Men and Women
Big deal, you may be thinking, men can rotate three-dimensional objects in their
heads and women are better at reading emotions of people in photographs. How's that affect my relationships with the opposite sex? Fair enough. Here's our answer: If you evaluate the opposite gender's behavior according to your own standards, never considering the significant social and biological differences between men and women, you will miss out on a meaningful connection because you were compelled to make that person more like you. That's what we call the fundamental cross-gender relational error: assuming that misunderstandings between the sexes have only to do with cross-purposes and not psychological and biological crossed wiring.
Gender Research: Exploring the Differences Between Men and Women