Barrett Lisa Feldman, Bliss-Moreau Eliza
Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Emotion. 2009 Oct;9(5):649-58. doi: 10.1037/a0016821.
People believe that women are the more emotional sex. This belief stems less from what men and women actually do than from the explanations given for their behaviors. In 2 studies, participants who were given situational information about the causes of emotional expression in target faces nonetheless more frequently judged feminine targets depicting emotions as "emotional" (i.e., a dispositional attribution for the emotional behavior), whereas they more frequently judged masculine targets as "having a bad day" (i.e., a situational attribution for the emotional behavior). These findings help explain the pervasive belief that women are more emotional when compared with men, even when the scientific veracity of this belief is questionable.
人们认为女性是更情绪化的性别。这种观念与其说源于男性和女性的实际行为，不如说源于对他们行为的解释。在两项研究中，尽管参与者获得了关于目标面孔情绪表达原因的情境信息，但他们更频繁地将表现出情绪的女性目标判断为“情绪化”（即对情绪行为的性格归因），而他们更频繁地将男性目标判断为“今天过得不好”（即对情绪行为的情境归因）。这些发现有助于解释一种普遍存在的观念，即与男性相比，女性更情绪化，即使这种观念的科学真实性值得怀疑。
