Title
Sex Differences in Emotion
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
11-26-2019
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender
Publisher
Springer
Volume
1
Issue
6
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to examine emotion and its various components as related to sex and gender. In doing so, similarities as well as differences are addressed particular to emotion. Aspects of measurement are addressed in addition to how variables such as gender are conceptualized and operationalized in the extant literature.
Keywords
Feelings; Cognition; Behavior; Examing emotion; Sex and gender; Sex differences in emotion
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Medicine and Health Sciences | Psychiatry and Psychology
Language
English
Repository Citation
Emmers-Sommer, T.
(2019).
Sex Differences in Emotion.
Encyclopedia of Sexuality and Gender, 1(6),
Springer.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59531-3_50-1