JohnnysMom88 wrote:
true.. Men are more visually stimulated, and women are more audio stimulated, the sound of rain falling, can put us in a romantic mood. Oh and lets not forget pheramones.. they play a part as well.. lol.. If your ever wondering why you find someone attractive, when it seems you would never be attracted to this person.. could be the pheramones... (sorry I'm a bad speller)
While there are certain stastical trends between genders, this has been over-emphasized, and often mis-represented in the popular press. For most psychological traits, the variation between random individuals is way more than the variation between genders. That is, we are far more different from each other, than women are different from men.
If you measure visual stimulation in guys and average it, and compare it to the average for girls, yes, guys are a bit more visually stimulated. But if you compare individuals, the measurements vary so much from person to person, that the between-gender variance is insignificant by comparison. Yes, there are differences, but they are not nearly so dramatic or consistant as we are often led to believe.
So being a guy doesn't necessarily mean you are primarily visual. It just means you're a more LIKELY to be visual. Just like some girls are taller than some guys, although guys are taller on average.
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