Sex and Emotions
Emotions, no matter how hard you try, you cannot control your emotions, only attempt to hide them. Emotions influence every aspect of our lives, what we do, what we say, how we behave and et cetera. All of our emotions, from happiness to sadness are influenced by several factors, just as our lives are influenced by our emotions (Gelinas, Emotions 35). The belief that women are more emotional than men is one of the most common findings in gender stereotype research (e.g., Broverman, Vogel, Brovernman, Clarkson & Rosenkrantz, 1972; Widiger & Settle, 1987). Past research has documented that although men and women do not differ greatly in the number of undesirable life events they experience, women are significantly more affected emotionally than men (Kessler, 19....). Women are thought to experience more frequent and more profound emotions, where as men are thought to be emotionally inexpressive and to have less intense emotional experiences. In this experiment, stereotyped belief s about experience and expression were studied using ten different emotions: fear, pride, sadness, anger, happiness, guilt, irritability, shame, and worry. In this paper, I attempt to shed light upon two of these emotions, guilt and pride.
Guilt follows from a failure when a person believes he/she could have avoided a violating act or could have done otherwise. In talking about guilt, let's first distinguish between real guilt and self-imposed guilt (Madzes, 1997). Real guilt means that a person purposefully hurt someone or the possessions of someone and feels sorry for doing that. Real guilt ranges from murder and rape on through various sex acts upon innocents to the various misdemeanors outlined by societies. Self-imposed guilt refers to non-criminal matters where a person has decided that they should have done something but didn't, or did something that may have caused hurt to someone else. Thus, self-imposed guilt means that a person has a measure of mind-reading going on, a mental guess that an action, thought, or even word caused harm to another. This could even range to the point where, as a child, you were playing as a child when someone else got hurt (or maybe even died). As a result, you turned on yourself with blame (Madzes, 1997). One fundamental reason why females usually do not allow themselves to experience these pleasurable proud feelings is related to vulnerability, and self-consciousness, consistent with women' s lower social status and power, lower physical aggression and this traditional gender roles (including child care taking and social bonding, which necessitate being able to read the emotion signals of others) (Brody & Hall, 1993). Intense feelings of any kind are destabilizing; females start to worry that they will keep on inflating with good feeling till they pop like a balloon, or float off into the stratosphere never to be seen again. Another is that females fear retribution; they have been conditioned to expect that something bad inevitably follow something good, so they would better not let themselves feel too good. Better to feel numb or neutral than to feel the crashing disappointment they fear will follow good feelings. To females feelings like pride can evoke painful memories of past disappointments (Lewis, 1995). Where as, pride is consistent with the male role of differentiating and competing with others, in which the goals are the minimization of vulnerability in order to maximize the chances of success (Brody & Hall, 1993). Similarly, the results indicate that there is a with-in subjects main effect for pride. The results show that there is a significant difference in the way people thinks boys and girls display pride, F(1,70)=6.880,P<.05. The graph depicts that males tend to display pride more frequently than females. The results also show that there is no significant difference in the between-subjects main effect for pride. In other word, the results indicate that there is no significant difference in the way that both males and females believe everyone display emotion F(1,70)=3.674,P>.05. Finally, the results indicate that there is no significant interaction between how males view males and females and how females view females and males in regards to displaying pride F(1,70)=.949,P>.05. The EES consists of 25 different emotions - 6 basic (fear, sadness, anger, happiness, surprise, and love) and 19 complex emotions (sympathy, pride, hate, loneliness, jealousy, embarrassment, guilt, distress, depression, anxiety, frustration, sorrow, wo
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