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Keller states that it seems to be somewhat desirable that female psychologists study male psychology. Man has been considered the norm and studied as a norm by the norm. Keller suggests an approach almost completely neglected, 'the study of male psychology by female psychologists who investigate not the points in which they differ from men, but those in which they differ from women'. It is argued that the female is suitable for this task because of her capacity to identify, her relative incapacity to overestimate or underestimate the love object, her capacity for amoralistic attitudes, her greater objectivity in viewing the opposite sex and the fact that intellectual women have less