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It's Official: Men Can't Read Women's Emotions
LiveScience ^ | 4-11-2013 | Tia Ghose

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 ...


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To: Sir Napsalot

Good Lord....how much did we pay for a visit from Captain Obvious?


41 posted on 04/16/2013 6:35:42 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Tublecane
That’s true, but they’re not even consistent enough to stay emotionally inconsistent. Particular feelings they’ll hold onto forever, never forgive you for causing, and throw them in your face whenever the opportunity presents itself. They’re terrorists, is what I’m saying.

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.

42 posted on 04/16/2013 6:37:16 PM PDT by Bob
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To: Third Person

‘What are these things called emotions?’

I think that they are an event that happens between dinner and bed time every night.


43 posted on 04/16/2013 6:41:15 PM PDT by Delta Dawn
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To: tomkat

Is it really so difficult to refrain from vulgar depictions of women being treated sadistically when commenting on a conservative family forum?


44 posted on 04/16/2013 6:45:44 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Sir Napsalot

‘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’


45 posted on 04/16/2013 6:47:04 PM PDT by Delta Dawn
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To: JoeProBono

It looks like the first two on the second row are out of order.


46 posted on 04/16/2013 6:49:23 PM PDT by willyd
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To: willyd

If you don’t understand women’s emotions, just keep listening. They always get around to it. But whatever you do, don’t talk.


47 posted on 04/16/2013 6:54:20 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: willyd

48 posted on 04/16/2013 7:13:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Sir Napsalot

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.


49 posted on 04/16/2013 7:20:34 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TChad

It might just be further evidence that many women are lousy communicators outside of their own sex.


50 posted on 04/16/2013 7:25:18 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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To: Sir Napsalot
It's Official: Men Can't Read Women's Emotions


51 posted on 04/16/2013 7:28:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Silly study. How could any man read a weather vane in a tornado?


52 posted on 04/16/2013 7:31:42 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (John Winthrop's "City upon a Hill" just became a midden heap. Infested with rats and other vermin.)
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To: NCjim
Apparently not .. the perpetually offended have struck again.

Not even worth pursuing it . . . cheers

53 posted on 04/16/2013 7:36:16 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Revolting cat!
You and me both brother!

CC

54 posted on 04/16/2013 7:38:32 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Hey liberals, what part of "unalienable" don't you understand?)
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To: umgud

That is great!

BFL


55 posted on 04/16/2013 7:46:45 PM PDT by octex
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To: Trod Upon
It might just be further evidence that many women are lousy communicators outside of their own sex.

Perhaps, but that result would not fit the PC feminist template.

56 posted on 04/16/2013 8:14:24 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives)
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To: JoeFromSidney
Just remember, there are two times in a man's life when he doesn't understand women: before he marries one, and after he marries one

You are old enough to know the truth of the old Italian proverb: Women are meant to be loved, not understood.

57 posted on 04/16/2013 8:21:22 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: umgud

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.


58 posted on 04/16/2013 8:46:29 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

59 posted on 04/16/2013 8:56:04 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: JoeProBono

60 posted on 04/16/2013 8:57:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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