On average, women have higher levels of neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Men are somewhat more aggressive than women. If you look at people who are bizarrely, extremely, psychologically aggressive, they're far more likely than men. There's some evidence that there's evidence that using these very broad personality scales underestimates differences.
In his expansive new book, "Psych: The Story of the Human Mind," Paul Bloom, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, lays out, in his words, "basically everything I know about the mind." And when he says everything, he means it. Where does consciousness come from? Does IQ matter? What makes us happy? Was Sigmund Freud a madman? The answers to these questions (and more) are all in Paul's book — and in this episode.
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