Why Do Women Worry More Than Men?

Two new studies indicate there's an answer. There conclusion is that women are more likely than men to believe that past experiences accurately forecast the future. The research, involving both 3- to 6-year-olds and adults of both genders, tested how worried they were that a bad event that took place in the past could happen again in the future. The findings of these studies appeared in the Sept./Oct. issue of the journal Child Development. Furthermore, these studies found that children increasingly made these kinds of past-to-future connections as they got older, which yields insight into their cognitive development.