What Women REALLY want!

I used to wonder what it'd be like to read other people's minds quote, but then I got a Facebook account and now I'm over it.

George Takei

If you’re one of those women that watched that awful film from 2000 with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt with contempt and distain, this will cheer you up no end! If you really want to know what a woman is thinking, ask another woman. That’s the message of a new study, published in Frontiers in Psychology, which was designed to probe our ability to use other people’s posture, facial expressions and behaviours, as well our interpretations of ambiguous statements, to deduce what’s going on in their mind – no matter what they’re actually going on about.

The research team, led by Dr Renata Wacker at the Free University of Berlin, recruited 304 women and 241 men, ranging in age from 17 to 70. The volunteers were put through possibly the most irritating – though potentially clinically useful – movie-watching experience imaginable.

The Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition is a 15-minute fictional film that focuses on the social interactions between two female and two male middle-aged adults preparing for and getting together for dinner. The film pauses no fewer than forty-five times for the viewer to answer questions about the characters’ thoughts, intentions and emotions. (For example, “What is Kurt thinking?”, “Why is Hannah saying this?”, and “What is Oliver feeling?”).

Each question has four multiple guess answers, for instance, in one pre-dinner scene, Kurt and Hannah are enjoying chatting about Kurt’s recent holiday in Sweden, then Oliver arrives and dominates the conversation, directing all his speech at Hannah. Slightly annoyed, Hannah looks at Kurt then asks Michael if he’s been to Sweden. Participants are asked why she did this – the correct answer is to help get Kurt back into the conversation; an example of an incorrect answer is to loosen Oliver up.

Earlier work has found that this test can pick up mind-reading deficits in autism, borderline personality disorder and body dysmorphic disorders, and can measure individual differences in mind-reading ability in typical adults.

In this study, the researchers found that overall the female volunteers got significantly better scores than the men. This didn’t come as a huge surprise, as other work has found that, on average, women are better at deducing other people’s mental states and identifying facial expressions. But the analysis also revealed that women were better at mind-reading other women than they were at reading men. Men were also slightly better at reading women than men, but they still scored lower than the female participants (note that, unlike women, men were rubbish at predicting the actions of other men).

Part of the explanation for women being easier to read could be that they are more emotionally expressive than men, as suggested by some past research.

When it comes to the superior performance of the female volunteers, this may be because women are simply better at mind-reading. Alternatively, they may be more motivated to do it.

Differences in male and female friendships may be one factor that contributes to greater mind-reading skills in women, the researchers suggested. Research has found that women are more likely to share emotions with, and simply to talk more with, their female friends than men do with their male friends.When it comes to the women’s particular skill at reading other women’s thoughts, “the proposed social-cognitive mechanism and developmental factors of this bias have to be examined in following studies,” the researchers said.

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