Gender Differences: Suicide attempts less likely in men with higher IQ's

The study, which I found on CNN.com, demonstrates that men with higher IQs are less likely to commit suicide. This research coincides with what we learned yesterday: that women are more likely to attempt suicide, but men are more likely to actually carry out the suicide attempt. To complete the study, researchers followed 1.1 million military recruits(all men) in Sweden. It was found that attempted suicide rate rose steadily as IQ scores dropped. The following explanations may explain these results:
* IQ may influence coping skills
* Higher IQ may be associated with a larger social network for better release of stress (and better access to a health professional)
* Men with higher IQ's may come up with better solutions to their problems
* Genes could be at work too

It is important to note, however, that the study does not apply to women or older men.

The link to the study is here:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/03/iq.men.suicide/index.html

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Aggression

The following video ties into the aggression lecture.
It is an interesting example of Instrumental and hostile aggression that take place from two perspectives during World cup 2006.
Materazzi the Italian player (blue) initiates the altercation by apparently provoking Zidane of France (white) by insulting Zidane's mother and Algerian ancestry. Verbal insults are very much a part of soccer ( I have experienced this on many occasions on the field as a soccer player). Additionally Zidane is the star soccer player of France and he had lead France to a World cup title in 1998.



Thus, Materazzi engages in mental and verbal aggression which fall under Instrumental aggression- Materazzi has the goal of helping his team win in mind as he wants to make Zidane lose focus so he can't play well.
Zidane on the other hand reacts by engaging in physical aggression (head butt) which is solely hostile since he only wants to hurt Materazzi without any goal of personal gain.
Materazzi succeeded in attaining his goal via Instrumental aggression as this head butt got Zidane a red card that ejected him out of the game and caused France to lose its star, leader and ultimately the world cup.
Zidane achieved the motive of hurting Materazzi via Hostile aggression.

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Treatment

This is an excerpt from a conversation I had with a friend a long time ago. It's an example of how differently girls and guys are treated when playing games online. Please excuse the profanity.

Guy: he is an asshole
i can't believe you're still friends with him
besides the fact that he does
"*girl's name*!!!"
"<333"
and i say
"it's ***" - to everyone so they know
and he's like
"ASSHOLE GET OFF"
lol
Girl: lol
Guy: and that was a long time ago
cause i was helping you
iono why
you're still friends with him but wtv

Guy: anyways
don't friend that asshole
Me: he was pretty nice to me
D:
Guy: NO DUH
he's nice to all girls
lol but he's an asshole
like
take me
like deep down
i'm pretty nice
& got morals
but he's just a dick

Haha, this still makes me laugh reading about it.

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gender differences- funny commercial

This classic Heineken commercial plays on a stereotype about the difference in what men and women value. The women get super excited about a huge closet, the men go crazy about a huge fridge for their beer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiAmMKzbvG4


Vithya Krishnakumar
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aggression: real housewives of orange county

This is pretty self-explanitory as you watch it, but it is an example of aggression. On Teresa's behalf, we could say that the reason why she is acting so crazy can be attributed to the fundamental attribution error, in which we don't necessarily give the situation enough credit, but rather blame their actions on the personality of the subject.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrWb5uTjx_Q

Paige Resnick
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gender differences

This scene from Friends touches on some of the gender differences that we talked about in class today. It depicts how women are more likely to divulge into detail as they reach out towards their social networks and shows how important those social networks are to women. We also see how Phoebe empathizes with the discussion of the date and seems to be almost exited about it as Rachael is, this is something that many women tend to do quite well.

here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGoC8FTLKSI&feature=related


Paige Resnick
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cognitive dissonance

in this friends episode, rachel experiences cognitive dissonance when her boss and her coworker smokes excluding her from participating in making decisions. She decides to smoke, although it is against her beliefs rationalizing that it will help her in her career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBtvJWOqDM


Alisha McGinty
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