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- Title
Gender and Emotion: Beyond Stereotypes.
- Authors
Brody, Leslie R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on stereotypes about gender differences in emotional communication or expression, as opposed to emotional experience or recognition. Expressiveness includes measurable changes in either the use of words, the facial and vocal characteristics associated with emotion, physiological arousal, or behaviors such as aggression or crying. The possibility that gender differences in emotional expression may be specific to certain situations is often ignored. For example, a series of recent widely cited papers have suggested that while females express dysphoric emotions more in words and facial expressions, males express these emotions more through physiological responses, as measured by increased heart rate, skin conductance, and blood pressure. Several papers are based on studies of couples' physiological responses, monitored during conflict situations in which wives confront husbands with feelings of marital dissatisfaction. In these conflict-laden interactions, husbands often show increased physiological arousal, while wives do not.
- Subjects
SEX differences (Biology); GENDER; DOMESTIC relations; MARRIED people; SOCIOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Journal of Social Issues, 1997, Vol 53, Issue 2, p369
- ISSN
0022-4537
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1997.tb02448.x