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Expressing emotion: Why women are more emotional than men
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When transcribing the videotapes, Aznar and Tenenbaum noted words like "happy," "sad," "angry," "fear," "surprise" and "excited," and found that mothers and their children used similar words while storytelling and reminiscing, while fathers and children just used similar words while reminiscing. - photo by Artyom Yefimov, istockphoto.com/artefy
Women are often said to be more emotional than men, and a new study shows why that may be. In an examination of gender differences drawn from parent-child conversations, The British Journal of Developmental Psychology found that mothers use more emotional words and content while speaking with their daughters than they do with their sons. In return, girls use more emotion during conversation with their fathers than with their mothers.