Will she see it coming?
The Hindu : It’s something innate in most women. An instinctive understanding of situations and people’s feelings.Sujatha Ramanathan, Head of the Department of Sociology, Stella Maris College says, “I think women are more intuitive. I would sayintuition is more a psychological thing. I don’t have a scientific basis with which to corroborate what I am saying. Mothers think of their children more than fathers do and they will know how their children are feeling before they even articulate it.”Author, Psychiatrist and Counsellor Dr. Vijay Nagaswami also agrees that women are more intuitive.“Its not that women are hardwired to be more intuitive than men. Its just that since they are more in touch with their emotions they are in a position to recognise their intuitive capabilities better and more importantly respond to them. Intuition like any other human faculty requires to be honed. And the more you act on your intuitions the more they get refined.Providing a scientific basis to the theory that women are more intuitive Neurologist and Neurosurgeon Dr. Prithika Chary says “Several studies have documented that women are able to get the big picture in a situation, are able to look at things from different points of view, are better at analysing facial expressions displaying various emotions and are quicker at getting the sense of things.This is believed to be due to the thicker corpus callosum (23 per cent thicker in women than men) which enables more cross talk between the two cerebral hemispheres.”The corpus callosumis the largest connective pathway in a human brain.Reinforcing her point about the power of female intuition Dr. Prithika Chary says “Women traditionally know when the men in their life are having a bad day or something is bothering them without having to be told .This is because of their intuitive sense which happens because of their natural ability to better interpret the facial expression and body language and the overall…More
