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Leonard Sax

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Leonard Sax is an American psychologist and family physician. He is the author of Why Gender Matters (Doubleday, 2005) and of Boys Adrift: the five factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men (Basic Books, 2007). He is founder and executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education (www.singlesexschools.org).

A cover story for TIME Magazine March 7 2005 included this statement: "Until recently, there have been two groups of people: those who argue sex differences are innate and should be embraced and those who insist that they are learned and should be eliminated by changing the environment. Sax is one of the few in the middle -- convinced that boys and girls are innately d...more

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Average rating: 4.08 · 1975 ratings · 721 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men 410 avg rating — 995 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences 407 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls-Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins 407 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Otokonoko No Nō Onnanoko No Nō: Konna Ni Chigau Miekata Kikoekata Manabikata by Leonard Sax, 谷川漣 (翻訳) 400 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Boys Adrift [With Earbuds] by Leonard Sax, Malcolm Hillgartner (Narrator) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.”
― Leonard Sax, Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

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“The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on there motivation and their connectedness with the real world.”
― Leonard Sax, Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men