Ladies, have you ever been talking to your boyfriend about an event that you both attended, or just a time that you did something together, and he acts like he can’t remember ANYTHING; almost as if he weren’t even there. Well, he’s not always just trying to get out of conversation, a lot of times he just really doesn’t remember. Or boys, have you ever been with your girl and she just started bring up old shit, and you have no idea how she peeped that; let alone REMEMBERED it.  Women tend to have better memories than men do.

Different research indicates that women excel in verbal episodic memory tasks, such as words, pictures, or simply everyday events. Men are better at visuospatial  processing, which makes directions easier. However, women are better at remembering the location of an object, which requires verbal as well as visuospatial processing.

It was also found that women remember faces a lot better than men as well, especially the faces of other women. There was a study where psychologist presented three groups of participants with black and white androgynous hairless faces. They then classified them as “male”, “female”, or just a face. The results were that women remembered the androgynous faces that they were told were women a lot better than the “male” faces. 

Psychologists also discovered that women were better than men at performing tasks that involved little to no verbal processing; for example recognizing familiar odors. The advantage of female episodic memory increases when women use their verbal skills, and decreases when the use of visuopatial processing is required.

There isn’t a clear reason why women tend to hold memory better than men, however the results of many studies suggest that women have better memories. I think it is also important to add that memory probably has outside influences, such as different experiences, which may cause results to vary.

Sources:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220104244.htm