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Friday, July 17, 2009

Emotional Difference Between Males and Females

Everyone knows that men and women are different, But, aside from external anatomical and primary and secondary sexual differences, scientists know also that there are many other subtle differences in the way the brains from men and women process language, information, emotion, cognition, etc.

One of the most interesting differences appear in the way men and women estimate time, judge speed of things, carry out mental mathematical calculations, orient in space and visualize objects in three dimensions, etc. In all these tasks, women and men are strikingly different. This may account for the fact that there are many more male mathematicians, airplane pilots, bush guides, mechanical engineers, architects and race car drivers than female ones.
On the other hand, women are better than men in human relations, recognizing emotional overtones in others and in language, emotional and artistic expressiveness, esthetic appreciation, verbal language and carrying out detailed and pre-planned tasks. For example, women generally can recall lists of words or paragraphs of text better than men.


Medical Reasoning Of Emotions:
The human brain has two distinct hemispheres, left and the right brain. Left brain is responsible for logic reasoning, planning, orderly thinking and the right half governs emotions, imagination and interpersonal skills. Both halves work together by exchanging information through a bundle of nerve fibers connecting them.

As a baby boy grows into school going child, more emphasis is laid on the use of left brain skills, leading to development of the right brain at a much slower rate. Men have less communication between two halves of brain due to the degeneration of neurons under the action of Testostorone. Thus men with less connection between two parts, tend to be predominantly governed by the left brain by being less emotional and more logical.Exactly, opposite things happen in case of baby girl.
So, Females are "more" Emotional Than Males.


Why is this so?
A recent medical research states that in case of boys, while developing in the mother's womb a hormone called testosterone is produced in excess, this hormone mildly damages the nerve fibers connecting the two halves and makes the connection weaker. This difference in connectivity of two halves in baby boys and girls have some intriguing aftermaths. Testosterone is the hormone which is responsible for Fertility in Males.


Man handle emotions differently:
Men are not emotionless, it's just that men handle emotions differently than women do. They usually don't talk about it. Most men dislike to share their innermost thoughts.

To end with, there is stigma about men and their feelings. Women are often accused of being too emotional and men the vice versa. However, sometimes women can be insensitive and men hypersensitive. The truth is, neither men nor women are emotionally centered and masterful. Both genders struggle with emotions. Its just that one masters slightly than the other. Remember men are not emotionless automatons. They articulate their fears, dreams, likes and dislikes with more sense of love and sensitivity.

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