ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews traits having to do with gender differences in personality and behaviour. Some traits are of a minor and very specific nature, such how one normally sits or carries books, while others pertain to broad-ranging traits, such as assertiveness and inquisitiveness. The chapter suggests that despite assertions that few sex differences have been scientifically documented, males and females differ on average with respect to many personality and general behavioral traits. Personality traits have to do with the most general aspects of an individual's behavior and temperament. Some efforts to generalize about the types of species in which sex differences in roaming are most pronounced have concluded that it is especially common among species in which monogamous pair bonding is least common. Attention-seeking behavior includes a variety of joking, clowning, and "showing off'' activities that cause others to laugh or otherwise pay either favorable or unfavorable attention to the individual engaging in the behavior.
