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Whether watching movies, TV series, or playing digital games: “Men want action!”. Is this statement an inaccurate prejudice about gender-specific media preferences, or does this stereotype reflect reality? If the statement is correct, the next question immediately arises: Are the differences between women and men so great that men are from Mars, women, however, are from Venus? If there are robust gender differences in media preferences, the next question for us as evolutionary social and behavioral scientists immediately arises: What possibly partly evolved mechanisms could be responsible for these differences? Based on already published studies, we will show that women and men report different media preferences (film, series, and video game genres) in surveys. However, this gender difference in our minds is apparently larger than in reality; it is therefore overestimated. What is striking, however, is that the overestimation is not the same for all genres and we propose an evolutionary psychological explanation here, which opens up new hypotheses that can be tested.

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Gender Stereotypes Compared to Gender Differences Using the Example of Media Preferences: Accurate, just Exaggerated or Completely off? An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective

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    2025年

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  • Benjamin P. Lange,
  • Sascha Schwarz

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Whether watching movies, TV series, or playing digital games: “Men want action!”. Is this statement an inaccurate prejudice about gender-specific media preferences, or does this stereotype reflect reality? If the statement is correct, the next question immediately arises: Are the differences between women and men so great that men are from Mars, women, however, are from Venus? If there are robust gender differences in media preferences, the next question for us as evolutionary social and behavioral scientists immediately arises: What possibly partly evolved mechanisms could be responsible for these differences? Based on already published studies, we will show that women and men report different media preferences (film, series, and video game genres) in surveys. However, this gender difference in our minds is apparently larger than in reality; it is therefore overestimated. What is striking, however, is that the overestimation is not the same for all genres and we propose an evolutionary psychological explanation here, which opens up new hypotheses that can be tested.