Table 1. Gender differences for emotional expressivity and emotional experience.
emotional expressivity | emotional experience | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Valence | Arousal | Motivation | Heart rate | |
anger | - | women>men | - | decline: men>women |
amusement | - | women>men | - | decline: men>women |
pleasure | - | women>men | - | decline: men>women |
horror | women<men | women>men | avoidance: women>men | - |
disgust | women<men | women>men | avoidance: women>men | - |
sadness | - | women>men | - | - |
surprise | - | - | - | - |
“-” means no gender difference.