The idea that “men and women are from different planet” are popularized by a “popular psychology” book “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus” which states that a lot of relationship problem are caused by fundamental psychological differences between genders. Despite there are some sex differences, there are no taxonomic difference between men and women in vast majority of personality traits and preferences.1
The book “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” mentioned that it is a common marriage myth to think the two genders have such a fundamentally difference.
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Carothers, Bobbi J.; Reis, Harry T. (February 2013) [October 22, 2012]. “Men and Women Are From Earth: Examining the Latent Structure of Gender”(PDF). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. American Psychological Association. 104 (2): 385–407. ↩