ABSTRACT
Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley was an American psychologist, with a particular interest in sex differences in psychological experience and in the psychology of children and child development. As the excerpt from her book on the Mental Traits of Sex suggests, her scholarship was influenced by the increasing quantitative empiricism with the psychological sciences, which now collected data on a large-scale for general analysis. The physiological expression of affective processes, as shown in the experiments on circulation and respiration, is more intense in men than in women. Sensory experience in general seems to be somewhat more prominent in the consciousness of women than in that of men. That women’s visual consciousness held the relative position was suggested by their better-developed sense of color, their more frequent use of visual images in memorizing, and their greater readiness in solving a problem depending on quickness of visual perception.
