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Research has suggested that women express emotions more frequently than men on average. [3] Multiple researchers have found that women cry more frequently, and for longer durations than men at similar ages. [4] [5] The gender differences appear to peak in the most fertile years. [6]
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.
Carstensen (2003) hypothesized that the reason that older adults tended to have better emotion regulation skills than younger adults is due to the socioemotional selectivity theory. [114] This theory highlights the role of social interactions in the ability to regulate emotions.
Women are known to have anatomically differently shaped tear glands than men as well as having more of the hormone prolactin, which is present in tear glands, as adults. While girls and boys cry at roughly the same amount at age 12, by age 18, women generally cry four times more than men, which could be explained by higher levels of prolactin. [32]
Altogether, about 4 in 10 U.S. adults say “fearful” would describe their emotions “extremely” or “very” well if Trump is elected again, while roughly 3 in 10 would fear a second Biden ...
Women tend to score higher than men on measures of emotional intelligence, but gender stereotypes of men and women can affect how they express emotions. [7] The sex difference is small to moderate, somewhat inconsistent, and is often influenced by the person's motivations or social environment. [ 7 ]
These impulses may be either positive (admiring and seeking out older father figures) or negative (distrusting or fearful). Sigmund Freud , and psychoanalysts after him, saw the father complex, and in particular ambivalent feelings for the father on the part of the male child, as an aspect of the Oedipus complex . [ 1 ]
Middle-aged or older women have been reported to be more likely to be diagnosed with hwabyeong than men. 87.5% of women and 12.5% of men experience hwabyeong in 1987 report by (Min, Lee, Kang, Lee, 1987). [7] The disparages for women can be pointed to gender roles in Korean culture, which adds considerable amount of stress.