Gender and Emotion

For ages women have been considered as the emotional sex. The aim of this book is to investigate this stereotype. A wide range of emotions such as anger pride shame sadness and joy and emotional expressions such as smiling and laughing are covered in the various chapters. The purpose of each chapter is to show whether sex differences have been found in psychological research in relation to one of these aspects of emotion in which situations these differences were especially strong and how (the absence of) these differences can be explained. This book is the first in its field to systematically present an overview of research and theory on gender differences in emotion.