2011년 10월 14일 금요일

Difference in Emotion

Gender

One study asked men and women to say few sentences such as “My dog died today”. Women read this sentence making droopy and gloomy faces and many of their faces were expressionless to indicate pain. However, men showed more resentment and anguish than sadness or pain when they read the sentence. So, it was concluded that men are either poor emotion encoders or have difficulty displaying emotions. Also, from this experiment, it demonstrated that women are more expressive than men.


Researchers at Wake Forest University reported that although men show qualities of being strong and powerful than women, they do face ups and downs in their emotions. Though women share their problems with friends and others, men don’t easily express their emotions with others and keep their emotions to themselves. One researcher, Professor Robin Simon further stated that both men and women express their emotion in different ways.





Culture

Study conducted by psychologist David Matsumoto of San Francisco State University concluded that Russians control their expression of emotion such as smiling, much more than Americans do. They study show the nature of collectivist societies: where people are more group-oriented, they tend to neutralize these expressions, especially in public. However, people of individualist societies like America, they smile, promoting more openness in general.

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