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. 2016 Jun 30;11(6):e0158666. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158666

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.