Women are generally regarded as the most emotional and gentle of the sexes but a new study has found that the opposite may actually be true.
According to the Huffington Post, a new study was carried out by Royal Mail to produce the definitive list of phrases for a successful Father’s Day card.
As part of the research, a group of fifteen men and fifteen women were presented with images and videos categorised into blissful, funny, exciting and heart-warming scenarios, while their physiological reactions were measured using electrodes.
They found that men demonstrated a marginally higher emotional reaction to the blissful, funny and exciting content compared to the women but responded twice as strongly as women when presented with heart-warming content.
Interestingly, an accompanying questionnaire found that even though the men reported feeling less emotion than the women, their physiological changes showed they felt emotion more strongly.
