How and why women are more emotionally intelligent? - Quora

Meta-analyses confirm this, although the size of the effect there is close to small(more trivial even) because d<0.2. That is, the overlap will be more than 90% between the groups. There are a lot of reasons. Someone said about mirror neurons and that they are more active in women(brain regions), although activity does not necessarily mean the quality of the skill. And the plasticity of the brain at the time of development may be to blame for these differences. I tend to think that the socialization and upbringing of boys and girls is very different. Therefore, there are such differences. But it would be sly to say that women always score higher in EQ in studies. There are enough studies where there are no differences or they are in favor of men. Plus, most of these studies that favor women use simple questionnaires, and this is not an objective assessment of abilities. I’m cut & pasting part of an answer I gave not too long ago: Substantial neuroscience (there are outliers who claim d

Meta-analyses confirm this, although the size of the effect there is close to small(more trivial even) because d<0.2. That is, the overlap will be more than 90% between the groups. There are a lot of reasons. Someone said about mirror neurons and that they are more active in women(brain regions), although activity does not necessarily mean the quality of the skill. And the plasticity of the brain at the time of development may be to blame for these differences. I tend to think that the socialization and upbringing of boys and girls is very different. Therefore, there are such differences. But