Psychologists have long said that men tend to be better than women at spatial tasks, like mentally picturing and manipulating shapes. Hundreds of studies spanning several decades have shown that on ...

Men and women in Ikea. Researchers look at gender differences in assembling Ikea furniture. With manuals men and women are about the same. Without manuals, men are faster. Pavel Golovkin AP ...

Many a relationship has been tested by IKEA -- the world's largest furniture retailer which sells ready-to-assemble furniture with cryptic diagrams as instructions. But a recent study on gender ...

Putting together furniture using Ikea’s wordless, line-drawn instruction manuals can be a horror show, which is what it makes it a particularly good format for deconstructing Hollywood’s monster squad ...

Everyone has an Ikea horror story. My wife’s work desk, for instance, took her and my mother-in-law an entire day to assemble, moving forward only in fits and starts with frequent intermissions for ...