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gender similarities hypothesis

the notion that males and females are more psychologically alike than they are different. This directly contradicts the popular gender differences model stating that men and women differ enormously in cognitive ability, communication style, personality, social behavior, and dozens of other characteristics, and the similarities hypothesis has been criticized as lacking a theoretical basis (given that it is derived exclusively from meta-analysis) and as unnecessarily dismissive of contextually based gender differences. [proposed in 2005 by U.S. psychologist Janet Shibley Hyde (1948–  )]

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primary insomnia

primary insomnia

in DSM–IV–TR, a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in initiating or maintaining a restorative sleep to a degree in which the severity and persistence of the sleep disturbance causes clinically significant distress, impairment in a significant area of functioning, or both. The disorder is not caused by a general medical condition or the effects of a substance and is not exclusively an aspect of another sleep disorder or mental disorder. It is termed insomnia disorder in DSM–5. See dyssomnia. Compare primary hypersomnia.