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Do Women Predict the Future Differently Than Men Do?

Men and women have such different perspectives that many pop psychologists say they must think about the future differently too. But if that's what you believe, new evidence from brain scans done on men and women will shake your faith. Last year, Harvard cognitive scientists Donna Addis and Daniel Schacter asked men and women to do a series of mental exercises while in an fMRI brain scanner. First they had to remember a recent event, and then they had to imagine a future event in great detail. The results of these "mental time travel" experiments were surprising. More »

4:20 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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Latest by n/a: Picardia said, "...fail?" Sorry, don't know what you mean. more »