PSYC 320 Lecture Notes - Gender Role
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6 universal emotions that everyone experience no matter what the culture: happiness, surprise, fear, sadness, anger, and disgust. No sex differences in all feelings and shame in simon and nath, 2004. Differences occur in positive feelings (including calm and excitement) and negative feelings include anxiety and sadness (women are reporting more negative feelings overall whereas males are reporting more positive feelings overall) It was found that the reason for negative emotions with females is because of their low economic status. When parental status was taken account the gender differences were taken away. Diener 1985: engaged in investigation in affect intensity and whether or not there are sex differences. It was found that there are sex differences with how intensely males and females reported their emotions also age effects were found more intensely. Overall, women scored higher than males suggesting that females experience emotion.
