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Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition is written at a remarkably uniform level, and displays painstaking care to avoid over-stepping students' pre-existing technical knowledge. Students who read this book will learn a great deal about research methods, data interpretation, brain function, hormones, etc., while also learning about sex differences in cognition....Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition has plenty of material to serve as the sole or primary textbook, and is well designed for such use. It would make an excellent choice for a capstone course: it is about the right level, it covers many different issues, concepts and theories and, perhaps more importantly, it encourages using biological, social and cognitive approaches to an engaging topic in an integrated fashion. Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition also deserves to be highly recommended for use outside the classroom as a comprehensive survey and synthesis of research and theory in this complex and highly controversial area.
—Human Ethology Bulletin
Let it be known that this third edition of Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities is a striking example of triumph of scholarship and knowledge over ignorance and political agenda, and I recommend it highly.
—Contemporary Psychology
Halpern's organization of the book is superb....Halpern delivers a book that functions as a primer on sex differences in cognition. The book not only provides a complete reporting of the facts, but also a thorough and easy-to-understand orientation to the subject matter....Halpern provides a masterful introduction to the complex and controversial subject matter of sex differences in cognitive abilities.
—Cognitive Science Society Newsletter
The book not only reports the facts, but also provides a thorough and easy-to-understand orientation to the subject matter....Halpern provides amasterful introduction to the complex and controversial subject matter of sex differences in cognitive abilities....the book would work very well as the primary textbook in a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in departments of psychology, zoology, or education.
—Applied Cognitive Psychology
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Thoroughly updated to include new research on brain and behavior, this text will be suitable for courses on gender studies, individual differences, and cognition.
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