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Do women really show their emotions more than men?
By Emma Young/BPS
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It’s a stereotype that has improved a little over the years but still persists: women are more emotionally expressive than men. Like Bridget Jones, we constantly reveal exactly how we’re feeling, while men, Mark Darcy-like, look on impassively.
情感表现力”这种刻板印象在过去几年里有所改善,但仍然存在。就像《BJ单身日记》一样,我们不断揭示我们呢的情感世界,而男性,就像Mark Darcy一样在看热闹。
虽然“女性比男性更富于Although prior evidence suggests that women really do smile more often, a new study, published in PLOS One, has considered a greater variety of facial expressions, and it finds that the gender pattern is more complex, with some emotions displayed more by men than women. Arguably, this work helps to reveal not only differences in the emotional signals men and women send to others, but also differences in the emotions that we feel.
虽然之前的证据表明【1】,女性经常微笑,但是,一项发表在PLoS One的新的研究【2】认为,尽管女性面部表情的种类繁多,但是研究同时发现,男性的性别模式更加复杂,男性比女性更能表现出更多的情感。可以说,这项工作不仅有助于揭示男性和女性将情感信号发送给其他人的差异,而且有助于揭示我们感受到的不同的情绪。
Daniel McDuff of Microsoft Research, Redmond, US and his team used a new automated facial coding technology to analyse the expressions of 2,106 people as they watched a series of 10 video adverts at home.
美国微软雷德蒙研究院的 McDuff 和他的团队使用了一种新的自动面部编码技术分析了2106人的表情,他们在家里观看了一系列的10个视频广告。
The participants were crowdsourced from France, Germany, China, the US and the UK. While they watched ads from their own countries on everything from confectionary to cars, their webcams streamed images of their faces to a remote server.
参与者来自于法国,德国,中国,美国和英国。当他们观看来自于他们各自国家涵盖了从糖果到汽车所有商品的广告时,摄像头拍摄了他们脸部的图像并传送到远程服务器。
The women smiled more than the men, replicating the earlier research. They also engaged in more “inner brow raises”, an expression taken to indicate fear or sadness. But the men frowned more. Frowns are usually taken to be a show of anger, though the researchers noted that in this study, they might have reflected greater concentration, or confusion. There were no gender differences in some other expressions, including downturned mouths.