I never really thought about it before, but I guess "sad" and "angry" are emotions stereotypically applied to the elderly. Get off my lawn and all that. Dropping it into the ocean at the end. No, you can't have equal rights because the '50s. Et al. But a new study suggests that older people don't actually exhibit higher…
Gosh, women and their messy emotions and crazy behavior while PMSing. What a womanly thing. But guess what?! Guys PMS, too. Joke's on you, dudes, because you can also feel crazy emotions and it sucks and can we please just hug and eat ice cream together?
NEW STUDY SAYS: Men aren't so great at guessing your emotions, but they can read dudes like they were separated at birth with the exact same ball sack. Is it because you're a master bluffer with dead eyes, or because they are biologically hard-wired to put bros before hos? It's both! It's neither! What it is is dumb.
Some exciting new research has recently hit the scene suggesting that some human beings might be in possession of a special gene that makes them more sensitive than others. No, this does not mean that Jennifer Aniston was right when she said that Brad Pitt was missing a "sensitivity chip." It has nothing to do with hurt…
Ugh, El Salvador. Always on their period, right!?!? I can't tell you the number of times El Salvador has woken me up in the middle of the night because they just watched an ASPCA commercial and need to come over and eat some Ben & Jerry's. But then Russia—have you ever seen that dude upset? It's like, bro, sometimes you …
Huug Bosse had hip surgery three years ago and hasn't been the same since. Specifically, he cannot stop laughing. He's annoying everyone around him, but he doesn't care — everything is amusing to him. Of his wife, who seems highly irritated by his new personality, he says laughingly, "She actually doesn't love me,…
It's no shock that showing empathy for your partner leads to a better relationship. What's a little more interesting, though, is that men and women seem to value different kinds of empathy: in a new study, women cared more about their partner understanding their negative emotions, whereas guys were more concerned with…
A new study shows that parents who overreact to their kids' mistakes and misbehavior might be teaching those kids to overreact too. And more disturbingly, there may be a genetic component to flying off the handle.
Last week, Rick Santorum said he didn't think women should be allowed in combat because the "types of emotions that are involved." Well, he's since clarified his position, and it turns out he wasn't referring to women's out of control emotions but men's. You see, he's worried that male soldiers would get themselves in…
Every lady who has ever cried in the middle of an argument or been told to "calm down" after raising her voice knows that the best way to get other people to dismiss you as irrational is to get visibly upset. I'd say that the pervasive universal brush-off of female anger is fucking bullshit, but I don't want anyone to…
Professional fighters are supposed to be infinitely stoic and fearless. But according to a new study, they actually experience fear like anyone else, and employ complex techniques to manage it. It's almost like men have feelings or something.
As a man, I regularly use the word, "need." I ask for my needs to be met in life, in work, and in friendships. While I may not often get my wants fulfilled, I am insistent that my needs be met. I have no hesitation in expecting this.
A team of scientists have spent the last several months studying the moments in a parent's life that seem like they last an eternity— children's temper tantrums. And they found there's a lot more to the angry screaming and flailing and hysterical "I HATE YOU"s than meets the eye.
A pair of high-tech glasses could help wearers read other people's emotions. But don't start celebrating the arrival of telepathy just yet.
Divorce is no fun for anyone. But a new study shows that it affects men and women in different ways, with women more likely to take a financial hit, and men an emotional one.
In a new study, women found happy, smiling men less attractive than those who appear proud or ashamed. Guys, on the other hand, are not so into proud ladies.
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This week Congressman John Boehner became the most powerful crying person in Congress. To celebrate, the New York Times has reviewed Boehner's tear-stained history, recounting some of the future House speaker's emo-est moments. Decline of manliness
A psychiatrist writes, "I've witnessed time and again the healing power of tears." But what happens when time just makes you weepier?
Obviously, blowing up at people
Los Angeles plastic surgeons report models and actresses are getting Botox as young as 17 — in addition to freezing their faces, are they permanently jeopardizing their emotional lives?
Popular stereotype would have us believe that young women are constantly obsessing over every up and down in their relationships — but one study says "romance drama" actually has a bigger effect on dudes.
Only the most shameless woman cries to manipulate an argument. And for that she should be tarred and feathered, because she perpetuates the idea that tears are shed in rational self-interest. THERE IS NOTHING RATIONAL ABOUT IT.
According to Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal, men's friendships aren't like women's friendships. Specifically, they involve more fishing. And poker.
In yet another blow
According to a new study, women are faster and better than men at distinguishing between fear and disgust, especially in other women. This may have implications for the treatment of diseases with "a gender component," like autism. [EurekAlert]
Writing for the Times of London, Tom Whipple wonders when everyone decided it was okay to cry in public, and if our tendency to cry over seemingly everything is taking the true meaning out of our tears.
A study found that when people looked at photographs of men and women who looked sad, angry, or scared, they thought the women looked that way because they were "emotional," but the men were probably "having a bad day."
