Posted on 04/16/2013 5:49:33 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
It's a cliché that men just don't understand women.
Now, new research suggests men really do struggle to read women's emotions at least from their eyes.
The research, ... showed that men had twice as much trouble deciphering women's emotions from images of their eyes compared with those of men. Parts of the male brain tied to emotion also didn't activate as strongly when the men looked at women's eyes.
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To see whether men really did have trouble reading women's emotions, Boris Schiffer, a researcher at the LWL-University Hospital in Bochum, Germany and his colleagues put 22 men between the ages of 21 and 52, with an average age of 36, in a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner, which uses blood flow as a measure of to measure their brain activity.
They then asked the men to look at images of 36 pairs of eyes, half from men and half from women, and guess the emotion the people felt. The men then chose which of two words, such as distrustful or terrified, best described the eyes' emotion. The eye photographs depicted positive, neutral, and negative emotions.
Men took longer and had more trouble correctly guessing emotion from women's eyes.
In addition, their brains showed different activation when looking at men versus women's eyes. Men's amygdala a brain region tied to emotions, empathy, and fear activated more strongly in response to men's eyes. In addition, other brain regions tied to emotion and behavior didn't activate as much when the men looked at women's eyes.
The findings suggest that men are worse at reading women's emotions. This "theory of mind" is one of the foundations for empathy, so the deficit could lead men to have less empathy for women relative to men, the researchers write.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Good Lord....how much did we pay for a visit from Captain Obvious?
Something good, that you've done repeatedly and consistently for years, that you forget to do once, turns into something that you never do.
Conversely, something bad, that you've never done before, that you do once, turns into something that you always do.
‘What are these things called emotions?’
I think that they are an event that happens between dinner and bed time every night.
Is it really so difficult to refrain from vulgar depictions of women being treated sadistically when commenting on a conservative family forum?
‘men (and women) can read dogs’ emotions much more accurately. ‘
On the TV show ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway, they had a game where the topic was: Things you can say to your dog, but not your wife.
Colin Mochries one word reply was, ‘Come’
It looks like the first two on the second row are out of order.
If you don’t understand women’s emotions, just keep listening. They always get around to it. But whatever you do, don’t talk.
You don’t look at her eyes. You look at her hands. If there’s a bloodstained hatchet in one of them, it could be bad. If it’s about to be bloodstained, real bad.
It might just be further evidence that many women are lousy communicators outside of their own sex.
Silly study. How could any man read a weather vane in a tornado?
Not even worth pursuing it . . . cheers
CC
That is great!
BFL
Perhaps, but that result would not fit the PC feminist template.
You are old enough to know the truth of the old Italian proverb: Women are meant to be loved, not understood.
I loved your list - except for the one about the oil. That and the dealing with the trash are guy things - and am sending it to my guy friends so they can show it to their wives. Oh, and it would be nice to have a guy who would clean my gun for me while he was cleaning his.
Gave up trying to understand guys a long time ago and since I don’t understand myself I’m not sure how I could expect someone else to. Another one of those it is what it is things.
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