Surprisingly scientists say “Men Don’t Understand Women”. Do
you feel that your partner doesn't understand you? The reason is not your
partner the reason is you not understanding your partner. The below is the
clear explanation of why men don’t understand women.
Men women understanding Women, beware: the next time you
want to complain to your partner, as he does not understand you, take a deep
breath and think this all the way through: maybe you are asking something
beyond his power. A new study claims that men are not capable of interpreting
the emotions of women – at least from their eyes.
Instead, men’s brain seems to be neurologically developed in
such a way that they encode more easily the feelings of other men. This feature
is believed to have important evolutionary usefulness, since it must have been
a key factor for survival in the “wilder” era of the most powerful prevailing
male.
Gender…
difference
Although men do not exhibit any obvious difference
anatomically, several studies have stated in recent years that there are
morphological and functional differences between the brain of a man and a
woman. Moreover, specialists of the University of Edinburgh conducted
experiments which have shown that men are not able to interpret the feelings of
others according to their facial expressions.
In a new study, researchers from German universities specify
more thoroughly this “inability” of men by investigating a new norm that has
been revealed by other studies – that men find it more difficult to understand
the expression of women than the one of the representatives of the same sex.
In order to find out whether men are able to encode the
emotions of both sexes from an eminently expressive ‘mean’ - their eyes, Boris
Schiffer, a psychiatrist of LWL Hospital University of Bochum in Germany, and
his colleagues, performed a functional MRI in 22 men whose age ranged from 21
to 52 years (average age of volunteers was 36 years).
How
eyes… talk
Experts showed to volunteers some pictures depicting 36
pairs of eyes and asked them to describe the feelings they saw. Half of the
photographs depicted women’s eyes and the other half showed men’s eyes
presenting positive, negative and neutral emotions, where participants had to
assess each look, describing it as “skeptical” or “terrified”.
The volunteers needed much more time and effort in order to
interpret the emotions of eyes belonging to women – specifically, the
researchers found that the degree of difficulty in ‘’reading’’ women’s eyes was
twice than the one of “reading” men’s eyes. Moreover, brain activity depicted
on brain scans was different in the two cases.
When the volunteers had to encode the expression of eyes
belonged to men, the activity of amygdala (area associated with emotions,
empathy and fear) was more intense, as well as in the parts of the brain
associated with previous experience and emotions. The patterns of activity
seemed to suggest that when volunteers had to evaluate “male” feelings, they
were searching for resemblance in their own similar experiences and the
feelings that they caused. However, when the evaluation was related to women,
volunteers were trying to remember the last time that they had seen similar
women’s expressions and what they meant.
Evolutionary
adaptation?
This “less personal” approach of female expression means,
according to scientists, not only that men find it more difficult to interpret,
but also that empathy of men is less developed towards women than towards
representatives of the same sex.
Experts point out that this capability of the brain has an
entirely reasonable interpretation, since it must have been very useful in the
past, when the rapid evaluation of opponents was an important “weapon” for the
prevalence – if not for survival – of males.
“As men spent more time hunting and were involved in fights
for territorial dominance, it must have been important to them to be able to
anticipate and predict the intentions and actions of other male competitors”
quoted from a study published in the journal «PLoS One».
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