Benenson's Study Receives International Attention
July 02, 2008
Research conducted by Associate Professor of Psychology Joyce Benenson along with Emmanuel students Timothy Antonellis, Benjamin Cotton, Kathleen Noddin and Kristin Campbell garnered global interest after being featured on ABC News on June 25th. The study examined the differences in aggressive behavioral tactics among boys and girls and offered a contradiction to the historically accepted notion that boys are simply more competitive than girls.
Initially highlighted in New Scientist magazine, the study has since been published by United Press International, The Telegraph (British newspaper), The Times of India and iTWire, a leading technology news source in Australia, among others. According to the research group's paper, "Sex differences in children's formation of exclusionary alliances under scarce resource conditions," published online June 16th in the journal Animal Behavior, girls behave similarly in competitive scenarios yet utilize more understated techniques than their male counterparts.
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