Английская Википедия:Gender empathy gap

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The gender empathy gap is the theory that people are likely to feel more empathy for one gender than another gender in a similar situation.[1] Many studies show that females have an on-average advantage in empathic accuracy skills.[2][3]

Empathy in different genders

According to some studies, females may be able recognize facial expressions and emotions more accurately and faster than males, especially some neutral body language. Additionally, females may recognize males' angry emotions better than males, while males may can recognize females' happy emotions better than females.[4] However, other research finds no difference between males and females in empathy. Researchers hypothesize that females' performance of recognizing emotion is driven by motivation. In other words, if females feel the work requires them to perform higher score empathy, they perform better; otherwise, they will perform no differently than males.[5]

From birth, male and female infants react to emotional stimulations differently. Experiments found that female infants are more likely to cry when they hear others crying.[6] In addition, they make more eye contact with people than male infants.[7] Scientists believe that those reactions of female neonates may give them more chances to feel others feeling, which may amount over the years to a sufficient difference that can explain some of the empathy scores gap of males and females.[6]

Gender empathy gap and sexism

Sexism against males

According to the research, both males and females have a better attitude toward females than males and provide female positive traits, which is called the "women are wonderful" effect or benevolent sexism.[8]

Studies suggest that people are more likely to put females in the position of being protected, and males as the protectors, which could be interpreted that males' mental health is not taken as seriously as females' mental health.[9]

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