Interesting article found on the Science Daily blog.  Testosterone decreases empathy.  So those with higher testosterone in their bloodstream has a much more difficult time ‘reading minds’ whatever that means.  I wonder if that is why women are more associated with Seidhr and other mystical traditions in Heathenry than men?

 

ScienceDaily (2011-02-10) — Placing testosterone under the tongue of volunteers negatively affects a person’s ability to ‘mind read’, an indication of empathy. One implication of the new study is that current levels of testosterone directly affect the ability to read someone else’s mind. This may help explain why, on average, women perform better on such tests than men, since men on average produce more testosterone than women.