Review of approches of studying gender and gender differences in psychology

Abstract

There is long tradition of investigating gender differences in psychology and interest in this subject is still on a high level. As gender has proved to be strongly connected with beliefs, emotions and behavior of individuals in last two decades gender has become one of most studied concepts in psychology. Basic aim of this paper is to give brief synthetic review of theoretical approaches of studding gender and gender differences in psychology. While earlier approaches deal with gender as subject variable, modern social psychology is quietly different, it focuses on interaction.

Keywords

• gender
• gender differences
• psychology