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Sex differences in the time course of emotion.

Gard, Marja Germans, Kring, Ann M.·2007·Emotion

Abstract

Conventional wisdom holds that women are more "emotional" than men. However, research evidence suggests that sex differences in emotion are considerably more complex. The authors tested hypotheses about sex differences in the engagement of the approach and avoidance motivational systems thought to underpin emotional responses. The authors measured reported emotional experience and startle response magnitude both during the presentation and after the offset of emotional stimuli that engage these motivational systems to assess whether men and women differ in their patterns of immediate response to emotional stimuli and in their patterns of recovery from these responses. Our findings indicated that women were more experientially reactive to negative, but not positive, emotional pictures compared to men, and that women scored higher than men on measure of aversive motivational system sensitivity. Although both men and women exhibited potentiation of the startle response during the presentation of negative pictures relative to neutral pictures, only women continued to show this relative potentiation during the recovery period, indicating that women were continuing to engage the aversive motivational system after the offset of negative emotional pictures.

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  • Women score higher than men on both the behavioral inhibition scale and the reward sensitivity subscale of the behavioral activation scale.

    “While speculative, this account of gender differences is consistent with the finding that women score higher than men on both the behavioral inhibition scale and the reward sensitivity subscale of the behavioral activation scale (Carver & White, 1994; Gard & Kring, 2007).”

    From Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal (2008) · cites this paper as Gard & Kring, 2007

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Authors
Gard, M. G., & Kring, A. M.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Venue
Emotion
Published
2007-05
Volume
7
Issue
2
Pages
429-437
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2117237786
Cited by
146
References
102
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (MH12918-01A1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
sex differences in emotion, startle potentiation, emotional pictures, emotional experience, negative emotions, positive emotions, gender differences
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Arousal, Avoidance Learning, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Motivation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Sex Characteristics, Reflex, Startle

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