![]() ![]() Gray acknowledges that “Mars” is not a part of the academic mainstream, and shrugs off the fact that some academicians look down upon his methods and credentials. There are many things that feel good initially and don’t produce any long-lasting change.” ![]() “The big question is, does this help people’s relationships in the long run? And there the lack of research really leaves you wondering. “People like to hear easy bromides-when you read it you can relate to it because it fits into your experience,” said Howard Markman, a psychology professor at the University of Denver and co-author of “We Can Work It Out: Making Sense of Marital Conflict” (Putnam, 1993). For many in the profession, that methodology is shaky at best and inaccurate at worst. Gray bases his findings on his own experiences and stories he hears, he said, rather than on any published scientific research or controlled study. He uses the analogy of men and women coming from different planets as a way to explain-over and over again-that the distinctions between men and women are inherent. ![]() Women, he maintains, work out problems by talking them through. Men like to work problems out on their own-in their “cave,” Gray writes. ![]()
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