Differences in male and female subjective experience and physiological reactions to emotional stimuli

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41600/17:73484

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.04.009" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.04.009</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.04.009" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.04.009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Differences in male and female subjective experience and physiological reactions to emotional stimuli

Original language description

Research based on self-reported data often indicates that women are the more emotional sex. The present study examined differences in emotion between the sexes across two components of the emotional process: subjective experience and physiological reactions to emotional stimuli. During the experimental study, participants (N = 124, 22.5 ± 2.88, 51 males) subjectively rated their emotional experience (valence and intensity) towards presented positive and negative affective stimuli, while physiological reactions (facial electromyography, heart rate, skin conductance, and finger skin temperature) were measured during expositions. Results from self-reports suggest that women declared more intensive emotional experiences for positive and negative stimuli and rated negative stimuli as more negative in comparison to men. Physiological measurements showed differences between the sexes in the physiological baseline measurements (facial electromyography, skin conductance and finger skin temperature). However, physiological responses towards positive or negative emotional stimuli did not prove to be different between men and women, except for finger skin temperature. Relations between self-reported subjective experiences and physiological changes were weak and insignificant. Collectively, our findings suggest certain emotional differences experienced between men and women. These differences can be found specifically in self-reported subjective experiences, while significant differences were not predominantly present in recorded physiological reactions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30103 - Neurosciences (including psychophysiology)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP14-02889P" target="_blank" >GP14-02889P: Sex differences in emotional habituation</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Psychophysiology

ISSN

0167-8760

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

117

Issue of the periodical within the volume

July

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

75-82

UT code for WoS article

000404691800008

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85018256527