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Essay / research study on gender differences - 1260
Nonverbal communication is defined as communication without words. (Devito, 116) Throughout your interpersonal interactions, your face communicates many things, including your emotions. (Devito, 125) In today's society, women are stereotyped as being more emotional than men in emotional situations. This is not always true, however, men feel the need to be strong and dominant about their emotions and how they react to certain emotional situations. Gender display rules are a set of rules that men or women generally follow in order to fit their specific gender scenario in society. It is stated in the manual that women talk more about feelings and emotions and use communication to express their emotions more than men, and for this reason, women express themselves more facially than men. (Devito, 148 years old) The research article I chose to summarize for the second part of the textbook is titled “Gender Difference in Facial Reaction to Fear-Related Stimuli.” The goal was to discover whether women are primarily more facially reactive than men, or whether women are more emotionally reactive in general, as reflected even in non-facial reactions such as autonomic response and emotional experience. . (Thunberg & Dimberg)In previous research on nonverbal communication, results indicated that women tend to be more emotional than men in emotional situations. (Thunberg & Dimberg) Research has also found that imagery-induced emotions as well as visually presented emotional stimuli generate specific facial EMG responses that can be interpreted as negative and positive emotional responses. Other studies with EMG testing, which is a test that assesses reactions to emotional activity, show that women are generally more emotionally reactive. Building on these previous research results, the authors of this article presented two hypotheses, which they will use to explain the following study. These hypotheses are: 1. That when exposed to emotional stimuli, women are specifically more facially reactive, but not more reactive in other respects, and, 2, that women are more reactive emotionally in general. (Thunberg & Dimberg, 2) The main aim of the study was to distinguish the results between the two hypotheses put forward. Ninety-six students from Uppsala...... in the middle of an article...... in my family, I I can say that my family is different when it comes to the rules of displaying the sex. When I was fourteen, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. When I learned of the diagnosis, I cried for weeks, along with my mother, my father and my brother. My father and my brother were not ashamed to cry with me in the hospital. However, my family has always been emotional and I am aware that every family and every person is different. So, having an emotional family gave me reason to think that it is not true that men don't cry or show emotion. Of course, everyone is different, and after taking this course together with Family and Society, I am about to adopt a very open attitude on many different aspects of different issues related to gender, families, communication skills, etc. before, I was very objective about everyone and everything except my own.ReferencesDevito, Joseph A. Messages Building Interpersonal Communication Skills. HunterCollege of the City University of New York. UNITED STATES, 45