Hello and I'm welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast. My name is Rebecca Lindenbach and I am filling in for my mom, Sheila, because she is on vacation.

And I'm Connor, Rebecca's husband.

I am filling in for Rebecca.

Yes, yes, exactly.

So welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast.

This is where we like to kind of get back to basics

and talk about what is really true

and what actually helps marriages through evidence-based

teachings and evidence-based research and all that fun stuff and we're really going to

be hitting on that today because we're going to be reviewing some neuroscience research

about this whole men are visual in a way

women can never understand mentality

that we have in the evangelical church.

Very fun topic. Very, very fun. So pretty much this is why we are

really doing this while my mom is not here because as we're going to talk

about it's really important to kind of know what you know.

Yeah.

And my mom is a very educated woman in lots of fields that are not at all neuroscience

related. Yeah, there's a reason that I'm not the one writing the blog posts.

Yeah, exactly.

So what we wanted to do is talk through two recent meta analyses that have come out about sex differences in the brain in the last two years.

So first of all, I am just going to take a minute and explain the difference between a normal study

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