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Expressed Differences

http://discovermagazine.com/2003/may/featlove

- stereotype

In 2001, 90% of American adults viewed women as more emotional than men. (http://people.howstuffworks.com/women.htm/printable)

Boys are generally expected to suppress emotions and to express anger through violence, rather than constructively (http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug99/youth.html)

- actual

Researchers at Vanderbilt University found that men and women experience the same amount of emotion, but women are more likely to express emotions. (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/News/news/june98/nr4.html)

Past research on responses to stress have been largely performed in males, whether rodent or human studies, and have resulted in the well-known "fight or flight" response to stress. Recent research, however, has found that females tend to form more social bonds and rely on social support in stressful times, a response termed "tend and befriend". (http://discovermagazine.com/2003/may/featlove)

I'm currently writing about the expressed differences in gender and emotion through actual differences and stereotypical differences.

Emotion and Gender

Gender Emotional Differences – Behavioral Aspect”
In a 2001 Gallup Poll, 90% of American adults viewed women as "more emotional" than men, but the survey did not ask for any specific associations for the word “emotion.” Scientists in the field distinguish between emotionality and the expression of emotion: Associate Professor of Psychology Ann Kring said, "It is incorrect to make a blanket statement that women are more emotional than men, it is correct to say that women show their emotions more than men." . Kring performed an intensive research study on emotion, where emotion was measured by looking at expression, experience and physiological changes among the research subjects. Participants in the study viewed clips from popular movies divided into five categories - sad, happy, fear/disgust, anger and neutral. The first study examined the emotional responses of men and women to determine whether women are "more emotional" or whether they are just more emotionally expressive. The second study examined family expressiveness and gender role to determine whether these characteristics can help to account for expressive differences between men and women. In both studies, women were found to be more facially expressive than men when it came to both positive and negative emotions. These researchers concluded that men and women experience the same amount of emotion, but that women are more likely to express their emotions. Furthermore, the causes of sex differences in emotion or the expression of emotion are not known. Some evidence suggests a role for hormones. There is also extensive research into neurobiological differences that might be related to sex differences in emotion. But neither of these answer the "nature vs nurture" question with regard to the cause of sex differences in emotion. In addition to biological differences between men and women, there are also documented differences in socialization that could contribute to sex differences in emotion and to differences in patterns of brain activity. LINK TO NEUROPLASTICITY PAGE. An American Psychological Association article states that, “boys are generally expected to suppress emotions and to express anger through violence, rather than constructively”. When we are young many children look up to their parents as role models and to seek guidance for our future. For instance, a young boy is taught to act tough and be protective. Also, that strong boys do not cry. From this they form ideas that they should refrain from showing emotion. Then, later in life, after they are taught to be unemotional, society chastises them for being insensitive. A child-development researcher at Harvard University, points to what he calls society's "emotional miseducation" of boys. . This implies that boys are taught to shut down their feelings, such as empathy, sympathy and other key components of what is deemed to be pro-social behavior. According to this view, differences in emotionality between the sexes are theoretically only socially-constructed, rather than biological.