Joshua, I’ve worked on it. And they’re mutually refinforcing. The simple version

Joshua,
I’ve worked on it. And they’re mutually refinforcing. The simple version is that men are more internally regulated (environmental adaptability) and women more externally regulated (social conformity) and the evolutionary reasons for this are somewhat obvious.

Next men systematize over time and women empathize within time. This means men predict narrow criteria (nature) over time and women predict wide criteria (people) in time.

So absent external regulation the combination of female neuroticism and incapacity for systemic prediction – or perhaps oversensitivity to conflict prediction in time simple pushes women into amplifying their neuroses (negative thoughts).

At least that’s the simple version of it.

“Inside every grown woman is a scared little girl” is an old dictum that reemerges every few decades.