Why Women Have a Sixth Sense??
For centuries women were burned at the stake for possessing ‘supernatural powers’. These included the ability to predict outcomes of relationships, spot liars, talk to animals and uncover the truth. In 1978, we conducted an experiment for a television programme which highlighted women’s ability to read the body language signals of babies. At a maternity hospital, we collated a selection of ten-second film clips of crying babies and asked the mothers to watch the clips with the sound turned down. This way the mothers received only visual information. Most mothers could quickly detect a range of emotions ranging from hunger and pain to wind or tiredness. When the fathers did the same test, their success rate was pitiful – fewer than 10% of fathers could pick more than two emotions. Even then, we suspect many were probably guessing. Many fathers would triumphantly announce, ‘The baby wants its mother. ‘ Most men had little, if any, ability to decode the differences in baby cries. We also
