Psychology in Everyday Life: The Psych Files

Episode 94: How Do You Learn to Act Like a Woman or like a Man?

Jan 12, 2022 · 23 min · 23.0 MB
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How do we learn to act in what are called gender appropriate ways? How did you learn to act like a girl and then a woman? Or like a boy and then like a man? Did you experience either penis envy or womb envy? Did this happen as a result of what Freud would call an oedipal complex or perhaps does our tendency to behave in stereotypical masculine and feminine ways come about more simply as a result of watching other males and females in your family, among your friends and on TV? In this episode of The Psych Files