Saturday, June 14, 2014



Today the world celebrates father’s day and most of us think that fathers do not care whether you remembered to give them a card or not—but they actually care.


New research shows that the level of sensitiveness of men is much higher than women. But what makes it not so obvious is men are good in hiding their emotions. That’s why most of us think that men are tough and they seem to have no emotions at all.

The Royal mail asked Mindlab to conduct a test that will check different emotional levels of men in comparison with women. 15 fathers and 15 mothers are involved in the test where they are hooked to electrodes. The result shows that the male creates a stronger reactions to emotive materials like the one they called “heart-warming”.

Despite the attempt to hide its emotions, men are really more sensitive to the entire emotional stimuli than women.

This is already proven by Mindlab neurologist where they asked two group of volunteers to watch a series of videos while a skin conductance electrodes are used to check their physiological responses. The content they watch includes different topic such as blissful, funny, exciting and heart-warming. Experts were shocked to find out that men shows marginally stronger reaction on average to all the categories. Therefore men responded twice than the women.

This only proves that our old perception about fathers is wrong. The experiment opens a new perspective of seeing men themselves and who they really are.  

After the test they were asked how the videos make them feel and most women said that they felt more emotional compared to men even the physiological indications said men were more emotional.

Dr. David Lewis, neuropsychologist and director of Mindlab who is a former lecturer at the University of Susses said that the way Gender is stereotyped like men being stoic and women being emotional are only reinforced by human’s day to day living and effect of media and social interactions.

This is now the time to see Gender in a wider aspect because it is only us who make things more complicated.






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