Finally, a type of face that men recognize better than women

Finally, psychologists have discovered a type of face that men are better at identifying than women: the faces on Transformer toys. It’s a first. All previous scientific studies have found that either women are better than men at identifying faces or there is no gender difference. “One of the suggestions of this prior work is that that women are inherently better than men at recognizing faces,” said Isabel Gauthier, David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, who conducted the new study with graduate student Kaitlin Ryan.

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