For instance, some studies showed that girls are less responsive than boys to zinc therapy for a number of acute infections, not just diarrhea (89).
The touch bar is incredible: highly responsive and ingenious or, Boy Genius if you will.
He found a very responsive audience in us boys and we were all existentialist for a few years".
She is as comfortable synthesising scientific data on how infant boys and girls are responded to by carers (they display aggression with the same frequency, but carers are more responsive to this behaviour in boys than girls) as she is unpicking the media's representation of women (experts in the media are 80% men; case studies and victims are 79% women).
Removing young children from institutions and placing them in families significantly reduced internalizing disorders, although girls were significantly more responsive to this intervention than boys.
The study found that boys are more responsive to short-term incentives than girls, and effects are more pronounced for math tests compared to reading exams.
In utero, boys seem more responsive to the mother's current diet and metabolism than girls, who appear more influenced by their mother's lifetime nutrition and metabolism (30, 34).
"He was a very spirited, personable, bright young boy who was extremely responsive to other people," said Susan Graham, head of school at the Gunnery.
But he's also unusually responsive to parents and children: a boy curled around his seated father, a woman carrying her baby under her stretched white sweater.
The school principal was instantly responsive; his staff spoke to the other boys.
For example, Jensen (2010) finds that boys in the Dominican Republic are quite responsive to information on the returns to a high school education.
