Lógica por trás dos contratos sociais
Natural selection shapes body and behavior of each species. For primates, the social environment constituted one of the greatest selective pressure for the development of their cognition. When we consider gender differences, we see that sexual selection also operates through different selective pres...
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| Resumo: | Natural selection shapes body and behavior of each species. For primates, the social
environment constituted one of the greatest selective pressure for the development of
their cognition. When we consider gender differences, we see that sexual selection also
operates through different selective pressures for men and women not only in physical
terms but in terms of cognitive skills. Among these, the primary cognitive abilities - that
emerge naturally - and secondary - that rely on an artificial environment for learning -
develop differently for each sex, making them suitable for specific tasks in different
capacities. Previous studies utilized the Wason Selection Test a conditional logic tool
- to measure, among several other things, the ability to recognize violation of rules in
abstract contexts and social contexts. Subjects generally had better performance in the
latter, however, in these studies possible differences motivated by learning in formal
logic or genre were not considered. Our study investigated these two variables, as well
as the time spent to solve each task. Furthermore, we used an index to take into account
the rights and wrongs of the participants in tasks. We realized that although learning in
formal logic does not bring significant differences in solving tests, the gender
differences are strongly observed when we consider the social contexts and abstract.
Women perform better in social tasks. This can be explained due to different sexual
selective pressures for this gender in terms of one-on-one relationships within the group.
Men are better at tasks of abstract context and this is probably due to the same reason.
Their capabilities for territory defense, habitat navigation and forming coalitions
depends on primary cognitive abilities that support secondary cognitive skills of
abstraction. Thus, gender differences are a factor to be taken into account in controlling
future experiments with the same tool |
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