What makes a typical man

Kathy Miller would certainly agree. She launched her gift business, Love is on Lake George , nearly ten years ago—a lifetime in the small business arena. Miller ships the Adirondack-themed gifts she designs to customers all across the country and attributes her long-term success to hard work and tenacity. What necessity is to the inventor, passion must be to the entrepreneur, and it should be on every list of entrepreneurial attributes.

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Know More. Designed for business owners, CO— is a site that connects like minds and delivers actionable insights for next-level growth. Extraversion, for example, comprises two aspects: enthusiasm and assertiveness, while Neuroticisms comprises volatility and withdrawal. Women tend to score higher on measures of politeness Credit: Alamy. Taking this approach, the researchers actually found gender differences for every one of the 10 aspects of personality that they looked at — women scored higher, on average, on enthusiasm, compassion, politeness, orderliness, volatility, withdrawal, and openness, while men scored higher on assertiveness, industriousness and intellect.

The researchers said that these would not have shown up in studies at the level of the Big Five traits, as used in most earlier research. This is consistent with the size of the gender differences uncovered by McCrae and others in their large cross-cultural studies, which also tended to be quite subtle.

We hear a lot from pop psychologists and cultural commentators about men and women being like different species. In they published a paper in which they claimed previous research had underestimated gender differences in personality by taking the average of all trait differences rather than viewing them cumulatively.

In an email, Del Giudice explained his approach to me with an analogy. Even when you account for the variation, many psychologists argue that men and women are more similar than different Credit: Alamy.

What should we make of this bold claim? Other experts are less convinced. While the debates about the size and causes of gender differences in personality are likely to rumble on for many more years, it seems reasonable to conclude that for whatever reason, there are at least some differences, however large or modest, in the personality of the average man and woman.

And remember that this is about personality, not all aspects of cognition and behaviour. There is increasing recognition of the part played by our personality traits in influencing our life choices and mental wellbeing.

A better understanding of how men and women differ in personality, and why, could help create equal opportunity for all, as well as more effectively combat mental health problems, many of which affect one gender more than the other — like levels of depression being higher among women, consistent with their scoring higher on average in neuroticism. Pretending that gender differences are smaller than they are deprives people of a very important piece of knowledge about themselves and others.

The more alike your personalities are, the more likely you are to approach problems in the same way. You and your partner will share similar approaches to everything from socialising to working if your priorities are the same, and this is likely to lead to a greater level of respect for one another. The Independent's Millennial Love group is the best place to discuss to the highs and lows of modern dating and relationships.

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