Sex Differences in Emotional Awareness

By Lisa Feldman Barrett, Richard D. Lane, L. Sechrest, G. Schwartz. 2000

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Episodic and semantic knowledge in emotional self-report: evidence for two judgment processes. (2002, background): “As a result, they possess more elaborated semantic knowledge about their own emotions as well as about the emotions of others (Feldman Barrett et al., 2000).”
Gender differences in brain networks supporting empathy (2008, background): “Women are also reported to display higher complexity and differentiation in their articulation of emotional experiences (Barrett et al., 2000), and to score higher than males on self-report measures of empathy (e.g., Davis, 1996; Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright, 2004).”
The effect of multilingualism, sociobiographical, and situational factors on communicative anxiety and foreign language anxiety of mature language learners (2007, background): “These differences are “typically in the stereotypic direction” (Barrett et al., 2000, p.1027).”
Belief and feeling: evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report. (2002, background): “Women, in comparison with men, find it easier to recall emotional events (Davis, 1999), likely because they have more sophisticated emotion concepts that can serve as retrieval cues (Feldman Barrett et al., 2000).”
Gender Differences in the Relationship between Emotional Regulation and Depressive Symptoms (2003, background): “Barrett et al. (2000) reported that women consistently reported higher levels of emotional awareness and that this finding was present in undergraduate, medical student, and diverse adult samples from at least two cultures.”
Emotional intelligence predicts life skills, but not as well as personality and cognitive abilities (2005, background): “119 been found by Brackett and Mayer (2003) regardless of whether personality (NEO Personality Inventory) and verbal SAT scores were or were not controlled.”