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The term comes from the Greek γέρων – gerōn, "old man" [1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear". [2] Gerontophobia that stems from a fear of aging has been linked to thanatophobia, as fear of old age can be a precursor to fear of death. [3] Gerontophobia can be caused by stereotypes of elderly people displayed in the media. [4]
Gerascophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias.Gerascophobia may be based on a number of different anxieties related to the ageing process from the loss of physical youth and beauty, the loss of independence and mobility, to worry about the onset of sickness and the decline of physical and mental health.
The male warrior hypothesis predicts that because males may have historically remained in the groups in which they were born rather than moving away at adulthood (see patrilocality), they have a higher overall relatedness to their group than the female members, who would have moved to their new husbands’ group upon marriage.
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Men More likely to respond with depression and anger: More likely to respond with anger Anger is accompanied by fear, guilt, and shame: Anger is followed by moral outrage More likely to blame themselves and worry about the effects of their anger: Quick to blame others and are less concerned about hurting others
Women and men are also different in how they neurologically process emotional prosody. In an fMRI study, men showed a stronger activation in more cortical areas than female subjects when processing the meaning or manner of an emotional phrase. In the manner task, men had more activation in the bilateral middle temporal gyri.
For instance, the average 2-year-old can only categorize facial expressions as happy or angry. As they grow, they start to be able to differentiate an angry face from other negative emotions.
Increasingly, women are playing the role of best friend, lover, career advisor, stylist, social secretary, emotional cheerleader, mom, and eventually, on-call therapist to their male partners.