Do you agree with this difference? Should men and women ascribe or follow these stereotypes? Why or why not?
When it comes to handling or dealing with “emotions” it is commonly said that men and women are different.
Women are more emotional than men, according to a common stereotype in both Western and Eastern cultures, especially when responding to unpleasant feelings. Despite decades of research into gender differences in emotional responses, no consensus has been achieved on whether women are more emotionally sensitive than males. When looking into gender disparities in emotional responses, researchers should include both emotional experience and emotional expressivity. Emotional experience is the external expression of subjective experience, while emotional expressivity is the physiological arousal elicited by external stimuli. Numerous studies have found that, as compared to men, women feel more negative emotions on a regular basis and with greater intensity. This could explain why women are more susceptible to mental disorders than males.
Women are more sensitive to negative stimuli than men, according to several studies, and this heightened sensitivity interferes with their processing of negative stimuli. Women have a stronger galvanic skin response and an elevated heart rate (HR) while watching movies that evoke feelings of grief, and their HR is similarly elevated when watching movies that evoke feelings of contempt, according to electrophysiological studies. Men, on the other hand, have been found in a growing number of studies to have more powerful emotional reactions to stimuli that are thought to be frightening or seductive. Furthermore, numerous studies have concluded that there are no variations in emotional experience between men and women.
There has been no agreement on gender variations in emotional expressivity. Many studies have employed subjective evaluations as measures of emotional expressivity and shown that, regardless of valence, women often report a more powerful emotional response. Women, on the other hand, assessed negative stimuli with higher arousal and neutral stimuli more favourably than men, according to one study. Women evaluated dynamic anger and pleasure emotions as more intense than static emotions in other experiments, but males only assessed anger as more intense. Furthermore, compared to men, women exhibited a greater degree of distinction in emotional expressivity on both positive and negative emotions, according to a set of findings. Several studies, however, have found no gender differences in subjective ratings when participants were given photographs, faces, or videos that elicited emotional responses.
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- Do you agree with this difference?
- Should men and women ascribe or follow these stereotypes? Why or why not?
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