PLoS Biology (May 2021)

How hype and hyperbole distort the neuroscience of sex differences.

  • Gina Rippon,
  • Lise Eliot,
  • Sarah Genon,
  • Daphna Joel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001253
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 5
p. e3001253

Abstract

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Sex/gender differences in the human brain attract attention far beyond the neuroscience community. Given the interest of nonspecialists, it is important that researchers studying human female-male brain difference assume greater responsibility for the accurate communication of their findings.