Emotion Concepts as a Function of Gender

Abstract

(from the chapter) the main hypothesis of this paper is that there are gender differences in the significance of emotions which lead to gender variation in both the semantics and the pragmatics of emotion vocabularies / present some reasons to assume gender differences in emotional values / review the few empirical studies that have been conducted in this domain and present 2 empirical studies [using 101 17 yr old and older university students for study 1 and 52 university employees for study 2] / examine both the semantics (the meanings of emotion words) and the pragmatics (the actual use of emotion words) of emotion vocabularies as a function of gender (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)