Abstract
Gender differences in adolescents' causal explanations. The main objective of this research was the analysis of gender differences in adolescents' causal explanations. First, examined general explicative style, and observed that girls were more optimist than boys. Afterwards, assesed the causal explanations in an anag ram task. One group was given solvable anagrams, and another group was given unsolvable ones. There were not gender differences in the unsolvable task. However, girls'causal explanations were more positive than the boys' in the solvable task. These results are in according with previous research, and suggest that women are more optimist than men, at least in early adolescence.
