Are women the "more emotional" sex? Evidence from emotional experiences in social context
Are women the "more emotional" sex? Evidence from emotional experiences in social context
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DOI：
10.1080/026999398379565
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发表时间：
1998-07-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Eyssell, KM
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作者：
Barrett, LF;Robin, L;Eyssell, KM
本研究探讨是否性别差异的情绪与社会背景，并解决全球性的，回顾性的，和在线的，瞬间的自我描述的情绪体验和表达之间的差异。参与者在最初的会议上提供了他们的情绪特征的全球性，回顾性的描述，然后提供了瞬间的情绪评级以及他们在一周内经历情绪的社会背景的细节。我们预测并发现，性别相关的差异，情绪在全球的自我描述，但不是在情绪的平均瞬间评级。此外，只有性别的互动伙伴引起的性别差异的情绪;参与者经历和表达更多的情绪时，在异性二人组。虽然大多数其他的上下文变量本身与情感体验或表达，这表明他们是情感唤起，没有出现作为激发剂的性别差异的情感体验，感觉亲密的互动与性别差异的情绪表达的评级。总之，这些发现对人们普遍认为的女性是“更情绪化”的性别提出了一些警告。
The present study examined whether sex differences in emotion are related to the social context and addressed differences between global, retrospective, and on-line, momentary self-descriptions of emotional experience and expression. Participants provided global, retrospective descriptions of their emotional characteristics at an initial session, and then provided momentary emotion ratings as well as details about the social context in which they experienced their emotions over a one-week period. We predicted and found that sex-related differences in emotion in global self-descriptions, but not in the averaged momentary ratings of emotion. Furthermore, only sex of the interaction partner elicited sex differences in emotionality; participants experienced and expressed more emotion when in opposite-sex dyads. Although most of the other context variables were themselves associated with emotional experience or expression, suggesting that they were emotionally evocative, none emerged as elicitors of sex differences in emotional experience; felt intimacy in the interaction was associated with sex differences in ratings of emotional expression. Together, the findings present certain caveats to the widely held belief that women are the "more emotional" sex.