Men are More Emotional than Women: Study

Men are emotionally more sensitive than women, confirms a study.

Scientists at the Mindlab in the United Kingdom discovered that men are more likely to get moved and become overwhelmed when presented with a gift as an expression of love and affection. Their study examined the reactions of 15 fathers and 15 mothers who watched images and videos clippings of different emotional situations like blissful, exciting, funny and heart-warming events. The psychological responses of the participants were recorded with the help of skin conductance electrodes, reports Evening Telegraph.

It was observed that men exhibited increased level of emotional reactions while watching the videos having funny, blissful and exciting content compared to women. But their responses to heart-warming videos that showed a soldier returning to his family after war was twice stronger than emotional acclamation seen in female subjects.

When all subjects were asked to self-rate the videos they watched, women reported feeling more emotional than men. Men are quick to react to emotional cues just like women but mostly hold back from revealing their mental state.

"We tend to oversimplify and exaggerate the perceived differences between men and women and are more likely to focus on evidence that supports our existing gender stereotypes," said David Lewis, chairman and founder of Mindlab, reports theIndependent.

"This study suggests that men feel emotion just as much as women, sometimes more strongly, but are less willing to express these emotions openly due to expectations put on them by society."

In another experiment involving 2,000 men aged between 18 and 24 were given the Royal Mail's Fathers' Day cards having phrases like, 'number one dad', ' you are the best' and 'I love you'. Almost 64 percent of the participants exclaimed they were surprised by the child's love and moved by those phrases in cards.

"We've created an ultimate list of phrases that have been scientifically proven to move dads and really pull at their heart strings," said Stephen Agar from Royal Mail, reports the Evening Telegraph.

"We hope this helps our customers when writing and sending their Father's Day cards, and we expect there to be a lot of emotional dads across the UK come Sunday."