Scale Reflecting Average Differences Between Women and Men

Unnormalized type profile (deviations from the mean in units of the population standard deviation):

Approximate percentage of representatives of each type group giving raw responses “YES” and “RATHER YES” for the property (averaging across all scale questions, taking the sign of the question into account; diagnosis by traits):

Contribution of traits to the variance of the property, in percent:

Table 1. Sex differences in a sample of 365 men and 365 women linked to one another by romantic or friendly relationships. The principal indicator (delta) equals the difference between the corresponding mean raw scores in the female and male subsamples, divided by the averaged standard deviation of this indicator in both subsamples.

QUESTIONS FOR WHICH A “YES” RESPONSE IS MORE CHARACTERISTIC OF WOMEN:

1. Every person and every event has its own emotional flavor and significance for me.
2. I can easily evoke vivid emotional memories in myself.
3. When solving a shared task, I focus on the other person’s perception rather than on the task itself - it is very important to me what my partner feels, what he thinks of me, and whether he loves me.
4. I readily notice and distinguish the slightest “intonational nuances” in other people’s speech.
5. From joy, from fullness of feeling, tears sometimes appear in my eyes.
6. I am sensitive to and observant of sudden small shifts toward a more negative and “cold,” minor-key, or dissatisfied mood in my partner or interlocutor.
7. When recalling some episode from my life, I immediately and automatically re-experience exactly the emotional feeling that arose in me at that time.
8. Copious tears easily “well up” in my eyes.
9. I have a great many long-standing, emotionally intense memories dating back to childhood.
10. My attention is always drawn to some special and strange relationships between people, even if I barely know them and their affairs do not concern me.
11. I always readily notice small changes in the speed of an interlocutor’s speech, the placement of pauses and accelerations by which the interlocutor emotionally emphasizes individual words.
12. In my emotional experiences, I often anticipate future feelings and often return to those already experienced.
13. I often become sad when I watch sad things on television or in films.
14. Some moments in films I am watching can quite readily bring an involuntary tear to my eye.
15. It is easy to move me by arousing pity in me.
16. When recalling key moments from my past, each time I re-experience anew all the emotions I experienced then.
17. I am lyrical and romantic; my character is marked by sentimental sensitivity and vulnerability.
18. I often immerse myself in past emotional experiences.
19. If I see something very gruesome and frightening - I will not be able to restrain my feelings; there is a high probability that I will have a hysterical episode.
20. At times, I ask for something or tell someone about something with suffering in my voice.
21. I am afraid of the dark.
22. I predominantly have well-developed interests in the humanities; I possess refinement in my perception of the world.
23. I am afraid of the dark.
24. I am perhaps more sentimental and worry more often than my friends and acquaintances.
25. I would like being a judge and assigning scores in figure skating more than being a judge in tennis or volleyball.
26. I am very sensitive to certain things, events, and phenomena.
27. Unexpected situations always evoke an emotional reaction in me.
28. I am oriented first and foremost toward my inner ethical world, the world of feelings and experiences.
29. I am very observant of people’s ethical behavior; I always notice improper actions among my acquaintances and friends.
30. I often find myself excessively strongly agitated by events that are taking place.
31. I am always interested in other people’s secret thoughts and like penetrating into them.
32. I feel compassion for sick animals.
33. Some emotional memories are with me almost constantly.
34. My emotions are characterized by depth, drama, and persistence.
35. Something inside me often prods me to “unburden my soul” and confess to someone.
36. I am very vulnerable to remarks from others.
37. I easily “read” and remember people’s facial expressions well.
38. When frightened, I often cry out involuntarily.
39. I myself become frightened, even to the point of startled flinching, when I follow events surrounding the characters in a well-made horror film.
40. Thoughts about tomorrow are almost always colored for me by something pleasant or unpleasant.
41. By character I am dreamy, sentimental, and somewhat capricious.
42. It is easier for me to notice changes in someone else’s mood than to control my own mood.
43. I often have dreams saturated with emotional experiences and memories of the past.
44. At times I fall into emotional hysterics or something like that, especially if I sense some kind of danger and instability.
45. Indicate the number of the appropriate option: 1) Facts are always stable for me, while emotions are only momentary and transient. 5) The same feelings can dominate me for a long time, and then all facts will be subordinated to them.
46. Even a disapproving expression on another person’s face can hurt me and wound me deeply.
47. I like listening closely to the tone, rhythm, and emotional content of music and language.
48. When agitated, I easily begin to panic; I immediately want to impulsively do at least something and run somewhere.
49. I am easily influenced by other people’s logical arguments and reasoning.
50. I begin to doubt my decision if a friend thinks there is an error in my solution to the problem.
51. The plot of films often grips me with anticipatory concern for the characters.
52. I like humanistic melodramatic films.
53. The world continues to hold together and exist only thanks to ethical principles and moral norms.
54. I like to “complain tearfully” to someone about my failures and maladjustment.
55. In a conversation, it is very important to me that contact with the interlocutor not be interrupted - that is, it is not so important to express myself fully as it is to receive a response and see that I am being listened to and perceived.
56. The agitations I have experienced remain in my memory for a long time afterward.
57. Fears easily arise in me from various thoughts.
58. I am a person who is highly vulnerable to how people treat me.
59. I have a peculiar kind of “arithmetic blindness” - perceiving numbers and operating with them is probably more difficult for me than for many others.
60. I can accurately describe how anger differs from wrath.
61. I like to be cared for and to have people listen to my problems and complaints about feeling unwell.
62. I can easily be frightened.
63. If I fall ill, I want pity.
64. I like watching television series about human relationships (such as the television series “My Fair Nanny”).
65. It is very important to me constantly to feel approval from the group to which I belong (collective, social group).
66. In what do you more often show personal initiative? - 1) In initiating disputes whose topics do not affect you personally. 5) In sorting out mutual grievances and relationships.
67. I often think with concern about someone’s attitude toward me.

QUESTIONS FOR WHICH A “YES” RESPONSE IS MORE CHARACTERISTIC OF MEN:

68. I pay little attention to intonations in an interlocutor’s speech, but I grasp the semantic content of phrases instantly.
69. I almost never empathize with characters in films - after all, it is all make-believe.
70. I am not very interested in what people think of my warm-heartedness, but I like hearing praise for my ability to handle facts precisely.
71. I do not always understand exactly when people become upset and take offense - when they are sobbing torrents of tears, that is clear.
72. Pity recedes into the background for me when weighty logical facts and arguments appear.
73. I am “thick-skinned”; all sorts of small details and nuances register poorly with me.
74. I can easily, without difficulty, indifferently walk alone at night through a dark forest or cemetery.
75. If working capacity, activity, a flair for the new, and high practicality are my strengths, then insufficient attention to appearance, a lack of tact, and a lack of psychological sensitivity are my weaknesses.
76. I usually disregard other people’s reactions and feelings in order to restore order.
77. Tears practically never come from my eyes - even when there is every reason to cry.
78. I do not always understand what the interlocutor took offense at during a conversation.
79. I often do not understand my interlocutor’s mood and intonations.
80. I am usually unaware of the feelings of my close acquaintances.
81. I would make an excellent analyst, mathematician, programmer, or geologist.
82. I quickly perform mental arithmetic operations on any integers (I believe my brain is fairly well trained for this, while the process itself is familiar and gives me some pleasure).
83. I have a strictly scientific worldview, alien to any magic or religion.
84. I am quite indifferent to what opinion other people form of me.
85. I easily understand complex mechanisms.
86. Reworking existing structures to fit the task being performed - such an activity will always give me pleasure.
87. I depend little on other people’s state and often remain calm even if everyone around me is worried.
88. Emotions do not affect me deeply.
89. In relationships with people, I often lack sensitivity and delicacy.
90. I easily understand technical drawings and spatial diagrams.
91. I easily absorb all kinds of news and analytical information by ear.
92. Sex is understandable, but a strange fanatical infatuation with a specific person - that is difficult for me to understand.
93. At school, the “exact” disciplines interested me more than the humanities.
94. I am poor at catching intonations in other people’s speech.
95. I have little interest in which particular person said something specific, and in general I have little interest in differences among other people - I am quite satisfied that, to me, they are all the same.
96. My gait is characterized by a broad stride.
97. I keep a great deal of useful factual data in mind, so my quantitative estimates of various objects or phenomena are generally more accurate than those of most other people.
98. I am a cool-headed person and rarely become attached to anyone.
99. It is true that I would never say that a person’s voice is “sweet” (a voice is not sugar and cannot be sweet).
100. If I decide to buy a car, and I am suddenly offered, for clearly half the price, a car of the desired make that is being sold urgently but in which a person died, I will gladly buy it without prolonged hesitation.
101. I often think things over, weigh them, and evaluate them with cold reason.
102. I display calmness and self-control in the most tense and extreme situations.
103. I easily orient myself in technical drawings and easily visualize from them objects in three-dimensional space.
104. I owe everything that happens to me only to myself.
105. My emotions cool quickly - I can speak completely calmly about past events I have experienced, even frightening ones, “with a cold nose.”
106. I easily and quickly find all typographical errors in a text, and I can easily and accurately trace a thread through a tangle of mixed-up ropes or wires - in general, I have tenacious, flexible, well-controlled attention.
107. Clarity of argumentation and persuasiveness of proof are characteristic of me.
108. I am not at all shy, but at the same time I am helpless in building my relationships with people - here I can easily be caught on a hook.
109. I poorly perceive the “subtext” in other people’s speech, so I prefer people to express themselves directly.
110. I am most often indifferent to the concerns that occupy the people around me.
111. I like setting myself tasks that are very complex in logical-organizational terms.
112. I am better than many people at revising and updating logical solutions and models, moving away from what is familiar and established.
113. I can easily convert a number from the binary numeral system to decimal.
114. I do not know how to communicate with people and do not like listening to them; I am more interested in looking at various objects.
115. If something in life has made me happy, I will simply tell my friends about facts and events that are obviously good to me, without saying a word about my feelings and without showing them outwardly. My friends must understand everything else themselves.
116. When I watch a film or play, I usually maintain the objectivity of an outside observer and rarely become completely involved in what is happening.
117. I am not easily susceptible to suggestion, and I think it is altogether impossible to hypnotize me.
118. I am fairly indifferent to anticipated painful sensations; while awaiting them, I never become nervous or “tense up.”
119. Quite often, for some reason, people take offense at my words, although I did not intend to offend them at all.
120. Anxiety is not characteristic of me.
121. I usually find it difficult to understand why one acquaintance of mine dislikes another acquaintance of mine.
122. It is true that other people’s scandals at work do not interfere with my work in any way; I am able to ignore them completely.
123. I am a very self-sufficient person - I am usually comfortable even by myself; in any case, I generally do not need anyone’s help or support.
124. I place little value on respect from others and have little need for it.
125. I very rarely talk about my own feelings and experiences.
126. Logic always helps me make my picture of the world clear and structured, so that I can then be guided by general principles and ideas while ignoring details.
127. I find it difficult to formulate and express my emotional problems in words (I simply cannot translate them into the language of words).
128. I am completely indifferent to what people think of me.
129. It is easier to talk me into, persuade, and plead with me in ethical matters, but much more difficult in business matters.
130. When choosing between the life of an innocent person standing nearby, whose leg is stuck in a railroad switch between the rails, and the lives of hundreds of people on a speeding train, I will almost certainly decide in favor of preserving the hundreds of lives.
131. I am extremely little concerned by people’s opinions - in striving toward a discovery, I satisfy only my cognitive curiosity.
132. I am a “thick-skinned” person with respect to all kinds of negative predictions from others.
133. In critical situations, I am able to block emotions completely, allowing neither fear nor panic.
134. I regard religions without particular interest and rather ironically, only as instruments of social manipulation.