Gender differences in emotion

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Emotions are the ways we express ourselves. Emotions are something we have all experienced. There are many different emotions and reasons why we have them. Children show emotions more often and even more vividly then adults. "Emotions pose an interesting problem for young language learners because they refer, in part, to unobservable internal feeling states"(Cervantes & Callanan, 1998 pg.88). The ability to show emotions starts to some extent with young babies. Children's emotions begin to develop more as they get older. Children learn from our society the standards which have been set regarding the types of emotions which are suitable for each gender (Cervantes & Callanan, 1998 pg.89). Boys are lead to believe they need to be stronger and more emotionless then girls. Children learn from their adult surroundings (Cervantes & Callanan, 1998 pg.96). "These findings suggest that children, early on, are learning to converse and think about emotions in gender-specific ways" (Cervantes & Callanan, 1998 pg.89), Boys and girls show emotional differences in problem solving, facial decoding, and emotion management. Children deal with social situations in concordance to the expectations society has set for them. These expectations allow them hide negative emotions and express positive emotions. Masking emotions in social situations allows children to be accepted by peers and hide any emotion behaviors which would deviate from society's norms (Davis, 1995 pg. 661). There are many dimensions of expressive behavior used in masking emotions (Davis, 1995 pg.667). There are four different groups which separate emotions and they consist of positive behaviors, negative behaviors, social monitoring behaviors, and tension behaviors (Davis, 1995 pg. 667). All of these groups are used to compare the emotional differences between boys and girls. “Further, there is
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