Friday, March 28, 2014

How stress makes men mean but women kinder: Anxiety affects the brain's ability to empathise depending on sex | Mail Online

Researchers from the International School for Advanced Studies of Trieste, Italy, found men find it hard to understand people's emotions under stress
Stressed men (illustrated) tend to become more selfish and less able to understand their own emotions, as well as those of other people, which can mean they behave meanly according to a team of international scientists
They said that women become more ‘prosocial’ and sympathetic under stress - perhaps because they are able to communicate their feelings
Scientists made study participants take maths tests and make speeches to put them under 'moderate' stress

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