Dr. Marc Breedlove

So first someone told me, oh, look at this course about comparative psychology.

What's comparative psychology?

It means comparing across species.

And, oh, I didn't know psychologists studied animal behavior.

And then pretty soon I took a class Linda Uphouse taught of physiological psychologists taught neuroscience.

And I'm hooked, right?

I mean, I love this stuff.

It was pretty amazing, really, now that you mention it, because Steve Glickman once told me that someone did a study where you ask people, how much do you attribute personality to sex?

nature and how much to nurture.

And he said the only correlation that came out of it was the more kids people had, the more they thought nature was important for determining... And you know that because if you have more than one kid, they're not the same.

And so in terms of sex differences, I'll tell you, so I have one daughter, Tessa, and she had two older brothers, et cetera.

And, you know...

My partner, Cindy Jordan, neuroscientist too, and she almost never wore dresses.

That would be our skirt.

That was just not useful around the lab.

And there was a period there where every day with Tessa, it was a struggle if we didn't put her in a dress.

She really wanted to wear it.

As soon as she could walk, one of the things she liked to do was to put on her mother's various shoes, right, and walk around in them.

Cute, et cetera.

I mean, she was so different from the beginning.